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 around the Copyright section would help explaining > that it is not essential that every author listed is responsible for > every file covered by this section, it is just important to capture all > authors for the collection of files this stanza specifies. Russ's proposed wording seems to address this. > Explaining the years would be nice, ie > a.c (C) 2001-2003 Me and > b.c (C) 2000-2002 Me > is stating (C) 2000-2003 Me in the Files: * statement ok? I don't see why it should be the job of DEP-5 to tell you how to write a copyright notice. How you merge copyright statements is a question of *law*, which I don't think we have any business encoding in a technical spec about a file format. For all I know, the SPI lawyer could show up next week and inform us we've been doing it wrong all these years and need to change all our debian/copyright files - in that case, we don't want DEP-5 to be giving contrary advice! >From a debian-legal perspective, I think "(C) 2000-2003 Me" is perfectly fine in this case, and consistent with years of existing practice. But I still don't want to hard-code that advice into the file format spec! :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100815080949.ga15...@dario.dodds.net