Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Russ Allbery
Craig Small writes: > This is the collecting part I hope is cleared up. Do something like > grep -i copyright `find . -name '*.[ch]'` > over a non trivial project, especially one that has been around for > years and you get all sorts of wonderful combinations. > The globbing Charles suggested a

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Craig Small
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:35:23PM +0100, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > On to, 2010-10-28 at 19:58 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > Would ‘Copyright 2008, 2009, 2010 John Smith, Angela Watts’ be also > > acceptable ? > > Especially if the situation is: > > > > Copyright 2008 John Smith > > Copy

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-10-28 at 19:58 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > It may be confusing that the header paragraph Copyright field has not the same > format as the files paragraph Copyright fields (‘line based list’). Perpaps > people writing parsers may comment on this as well… That was a bug. Fixed. > Sin

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:15:19AM +0100, Lars Wirzenius a écrit : Hi Lars, Russ, everybody… I have two comments and a question: > === modified file 'dep5.mdwn' > --- dep5.mdwn 2010-09-23 12:40:46 + > +++ dep5.mdwn 2010-10-28 10:14:33 + > @@ -167,6 +167,15 @@ > from a version known

Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza

2010-10-28 Thread Lars Wirzenius
This is continuing the discussion from 2.5 months ago. On la, 2010-08-14 at 10:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:13:57PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > >> We should say explicitly that the copyright field is a rollup of all > >> relevant copyrig