Re: Debian copyright file and contributors

2019-04-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 19 April 2019 08:38:59 CEST Mo Zhou wrote: > The simplest way is to modify automatically generated copyright file: > > $ licensecheck -r --deb-machine . >> debian/copyright This can yield a verbose copyright file. You can also generate a consolidated file with $ cme update dpkg-c

Re: Debian copyright file and contributors

2019-04-29 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Friday, 19 April 2019 00:04:03 CEST Tong Sun wrote: > What is the simplest way to put all contributors into the Debian copyright > file? Please don't. Contributors are not necessarily copyright owners. Debian policy [1] requires: > Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its

Re: Debian copyright file and contributors

2019-04-19 Thread Tong Sun
Thanks lumin, I did a check: > Licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text belonging to various licenses. I guess in such case, >90% of the contributors will be missed. By "contributors" I meant the people com

Re: Debian copyright file and contributors

2019-04-18 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi, The simplest way is to modify automatically generated copyright file: $ licensecheck -r --deb-machine . >> debian/copyright On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 06:04:03PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > Hi, > > What is the simplest way to put all contributors into the Debian copyright > file? > > I know th

Debian copyright file and contributors

2019-04-18 Thread Tong Sun
Hi, What is the simplest way to put all contributors into the Debian copyright file? I know the hardest way is associate each with their corresponding change files, but for popular projects, the Debian copyright file would be unnecessarily HUGE. Would this be acceptable? Especially for those tha