On 2017-04-11 15:28, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 09:33:59AM +0200, Paride Legovini wrote: >> [Note for whoever lands here: the package has been rejected from NEW >> because of unattributed files in lua/lexers]. >> >> Hello Adam, >> >> I didn't realize that some files in lua/lexers were not fully attributed >> in debian/copyright. Regarding those files: there is one main author >> (that is attributed), then many single-file contributions from about 40 >> different authors. > > Very few projects bother tracking attributions of specific files. > >> Should I list all these authors in debian/copyright, or can I do like >> it's done for the Linux kernel: >> >> Files: * >> Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others >> License: GPL-2 >> >> hence writing: >> >> Files: lua/lexers/* >> Copyright: 2007-2016 Mitchell <mitch...@foicica.com> and many others >> License: MIT > > I like this approach, it saves us a lot of work. It'd be nice to hear from > a ftpmaster, though, to reduce the number of trips to NEW.
I asked on IRC, didn't get a definitive answer, but my feeling is that there is a preference for giving attribution when possible. I wrote a simple shell script that generates the copyright entries for the lexers, the output is like this https://clbin.com/m32Id Some entries could be joined, but doing it automatically becomes nontrivial, as there are some files with more than one author. I lean towards leaving it like this. If you think it's OK I'll upload a revised package to mentors. Paride
