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

2010-11-13 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On to, 2010-10-28 at 17:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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 so

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

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

2010-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:04:12AM -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 copyright declarations for that group of files, yes. > >

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

2010-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:45:12PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > Attached is a patch that tries to clarify this in the DEP itself. Do you > > think it does an adequate job of this? If so, given that this is a > It certainly makes it more clearer. Ok, committed to trunk, thanks! > Something arou

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

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 06:00:12PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:45:12PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > >If this does make it in, someone should write a file checking > >program to check the globbing. returns > > > > Except that DEP5 only covers source. > Would still m

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

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > The Copyright field collects all relevant copyright notices for the > files of this stanza. Not all copyright notices may apply to every > individual file, and years of publication for one copyright holder may > be gat

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

2010-08-14 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2010-08-14 at 10:04 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek writes: ... > How about this (written without looking at the detailed wording of the > document, so may need some massaging to fit into the flow): FWIW, I like Steve's patch and Russ's addition to it. Anyone object to them?

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

2010-08-14 Thread Russ Allbery
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 copyright declarations for that group of files, yes. > Russ, can you suggest some language around this? "rollup" just conjure

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

2010-08-14 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 05:45:12PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: If this does make it in, someone should write a file checking program to check the globbing. returns Except that DEP5 only covers source. Would still make sense to have a program doing similar for source: returns - Jonas

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

2010-08-14 Thread Craig Small
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 10:39:38PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Indeed, there seems to be a quite common misconception that the presence of > syntax in DEP-5 that lets you list the copyright and license of individual > files means that it is a *requirement* that you list the license status with >

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

2010-08-13 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Craig, On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:13:57PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:09:44PM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > On pe, 2010-08-13 at 09:08 +1000, Craig Small wrote: > > That would indicate there is a bug in the DEP-5 spec. It is, in my very > > non-humble opinion, not