Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-12-04 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 30 November 2015 21:06:17 Ferenc Wagner wrote: > I know of licensecheck, > but this area really cries for more automation and checking. I'm working on it. You can try 'cme update dpkg-copyright' or 'scan- copyrights' provided by libconfig-model-dpkg-perl. Hopefully these commands will

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Vincent Bernat writes: > ❦ 30 novembre 2015 10:41 +0100, Ferenc Wagner  : > >> Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several >> copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and >> later those carried over from other macro packages included into >> Ma

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Alex Vong writes: > I am not a mentor, the following is just my opinions: I'm afraid that if you answer a question on debian-mentors, you're a mentor by definition. :) > I don't know how Makefile.in is being handled in particular, but I > think in general, if one file has more than one copyrigh

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 30 novembre 2015 10:41 +0100, Ferenc Wagner  : > Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several > copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and > later those carried over from other macro packages included into > Makefile.am (for example: include

Re: Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Alex Vong
Hi, I am not a mentor, the following is just my opinions: I think if possible, Makefile.in should not be included in tarball, since dh_autoreconf will re-generate it at build-time anyway. But I think it is fine to keep it if the upstream tarball provides it since it does not worth repacking the t

Copyright of composite Makefile.in files

2015-11-30 Thread Ferenc Wagner
Dear mentors, Makefile.in files distributed in an upstream tarball often have several copyright notices: the FSF copyleft at the top added by Automake and later those carried over from other macro packages included into Makefile.am (for example: include doxygen.am). The result is like this: # M