On 20:12 Mon 30 Mar     , Charles Plessy wrote:
CP> Le Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:02:34PM +0200, Grammostola Rosea a écrit :
>> 
>> And what about the years for the author? How define them?

CP> In my opinion, there is no need to be more precise as Upstream. If they 
provide
CP> a list or a collective name in their README file, and if their source 
tarball
CP> does not contain parts that are obviously derived or copied from other
CP> projects, I usually use their information verbatim. Sometimes I increment
CP> the year if it is obvious they forgot.

CP> But I do not think that there is a single solution. If you are already in
CP> contact with them, maybe the simplest is to ask them what they prefer?

CP> Have a nice day,

I had been rejected from NEW-stage a few times because some copyright
records was not included into the debian/copyright. Since last reject
I have been doing "grep -ir '(c)' ." in src-tree and add results into 
debian/copyright. It works very well :)

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