On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:33, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:55:14AM +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote: >> >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24:44PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:19:55PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: >>> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:29:04AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: >>> > >I'm working on Ecasound's copyright file. Would like to ask for a > >>> > > >review. >>> > > >>> > >This project has lots of contributors with different dates in > >>> > > >different files. >>> > > >>> > >The catchall entry points to the original developer covering all > >>> > > >years listed in the project files. >>> > > >>> > >Files: * >>> > >Copyright: 1997-2010 Kai Vehmanen <kvehma...@eca.cx> >>> > >License: GPL-2+ >>> > >>> > Was there an implicit question somewhere in the above? >>> >>> Not from me. Alessandro, was there something you >>> wanted to ask about? >> >> Yes. Currently the debian/copyright for ecasound lists all the different >> contributors to the software, but having a look at the licensecheck output >> some (one in particular) contributors are listed with different copyright >> years ranges (for different files of course), e.g.: >> >> Copyright: 2002-2010 Kai Vehmanen >> Copyright: 1999-2004,2007 Kai Vehmanen >> Copyright: 1997-2010 Kai Vehmanen >> >> and many others. The question is, do we need to list all this copyright >> statements, or we can just use a single catch-all copyright years range >> for >> this contributor? >> >> Hope this makes sense to you :) > > Makes perfect sense with this clarification, thank you. > > My understanding of Debian Policy is that debian/copyright must include all > copyright holders and must include verbatim copies of licensing statements. > Which means it is _not_ a requirement to list all contributors/authors > (only copyright holders) and need not list copyright holders verbatim (only > licensing statements. > > In other words, I find it ok - and most sensible - to abbreviate to... > > * Merge all Files sections for same codebase and same licensing > * Merge all copyright holder lines into one > * Strip © and other copyright signatures > * List copyright years most compact as possible > * Use full 4-digit years: 1999 (not '99) > * Use ranges: 1999-2003 (not 1999,2000,2001,2002,2003) > * Strip spaces in between years chunk: 2001,2002 (not 2001, 2002) > > Also, I prefer to add a comma between years chunk and name of copyright > holder. > > So I would list above example as such: > > Copyright: 1997-2010, Kai Vehmanen > > I would not trust license-check but check the actual files for e.g. > additional years listed on another line, or licensing variation/excemption. > > I would also grep sources for some mention of email address for the authors > when not included at the place of claiming the copyright. Again this is > tied to my understanding of the Copyright paragraph reflecting not "what was > stated as copyright" but "who (and for what years) was stated as being > copyright holder". > > > Hope that helps.
Thank you very much Jonas, that was indeed helpful :) Cheers _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
