Hi Soren Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> writes:
> Xiyue, > > On Saturday, December 14, 2024 12:36:43 AM MST Xiyue Deng wrote: >> I took a look at the machine-readable copyright format document[1], >> specifically the example given in the copyright section 6.8, and I >> think it meant that if a group of file shares any copyright holder(s), >> those files can be grouped in the same stanza - in the example, Angela >> Watts appeared in both source files so those files can share the same >> stanza. I think in the case for dap-mode, each file has only a single >> copyright holder so may be this simplification doesn't apply, so I opt >> to provide separate stanza for all files. I surely hope I can list >> everyone under "Files: *" so that things can be simpler, but keeping it >> as-is just in case. > > Every file in a given stanza must have the exact same license. But they > don’t > need to have the same copyright information. Meaning that if file A is > copyright 2020 Alice and file B is copyright 2021 Bob, they can be grouped as: > > Files: fileA > fileB > Copyright: 2020 Alice > 2021 Bob > License: Some-License > > https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#copyright-field > > The reason why it is structured this way is that it easily tells people which > files they can use under which license. The purpose of this design is not to > list the individual copyright of each file (that would make debian/copyright > enormously large for big projects). Rather, it says, "You can use all of the > files in this stanza under this license. If, for some reason, you need to > relicense all of these files under a different license, you would need to > contact all of the copyright holders listed here to get permission to > relicense. If you only need to relicense some of the files in this stanza, > debian/copyright does not provide detailed information about which of the > files > are under each copyright, but you are free to check the individual files to > sus > out that information.” > Thanks for the detailed explanation! AIUI, as long as the files are using the same license, their copyright holders can be grouped by one stanza, regardless of individual file copyright holder differences. Is my understanding correct? > As an example, check out the following debian/copyright: > > https://salsa.debian.org/soren/feather-wallet/-/blob/main/debian/copyright? > ref_type=heads#L29-46 > I was initially confused by multiple "BSD-3-clause" stanzas, but later realized that there was another license stanza for the upper directory (very subtle). > -- > Soren Stoutner > so...@debian.org -- Regards, Xiyue Deng
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