Hello, A few nit-picking questions regarding evaluation of copyright and license syntax in submitted projects.
This relates to few projects I'm evaluating, especially: https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?13269 But also to the semi-automated evaluation script I've sent earlier. All these issues are two-fold: 1. When manually evaluation a project, should these be raised as items to be fixed? 2. When using the script, should these be flagged or automatically accepted? -1- Is the "(C)" part in "Copyright (C) 2014" required, highly-recommend, or optional ? My regex currently requires '\([Cc]\)' . -2- Is it valid to write: "Copyright (C) 2014 by it's authors." Followed by "See AUTHORS file". -3- Is it valid to write: "Copyright 2009-2014 <foo...@home.com>" ? I recall there's a complication regarding listing years as a range. -4- Is it valid to write: "* Some rights reserved. See COPYING, AUTHORS. * This file may be used under the terms of the GNU General Public * License version 3.0 as published by the Free Software Foundation * and appearing in the file COPYING included in the packaging of * this file." 4a) is a valid license statement? 4b) is it acceptable for GNU Savannah or should we ask to change the wording to the standard broiler-plate text? -5- Is it acceptable for copyright to appear not at the top of the file ? 5a) is it valid copyright ? 5b) is it acceptable for GNU Savannah ? Thanks, - Assaf
