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

Re: debian/copyright file

2007-12-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Robin Cornelius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are a couple of files that do NOT have copyright, these were > created by a US government contractor and therefor :- > > Copyright: It is the policy of NLM (U.S. National Library of Medicine) >(and U.S. government) to not assert copyright

Re: debian/copyright file

2007-12-28 Thread Bart Martens
On Fri, 2007-12-28 at 14:56 +, Robin Cornelius wrote: > My main questions are :- > > 1) is it necessary to repeat the license text every time, for example :- > > Files: libopenjpeg/j2k.c > libopenjpeg/j2k.h > libopenjpeg/openjpeg.h > Copyright: © 2002-2007, Communications and Remote