On to, 2010-10-28 at 17:52 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Craig Small <csm...@debian.org> 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 adds Angela to 2008 and John to 2009, > > maybe. I'm not sure if that's a problem. > > I doubt there's any way that we could know without asking a lawyer, but my > feeling is that long before we got into trouble for aggregating copyright > statements, we would have many, many other problems with our current > practices.
I gather there's a rough consensus on accepting my diff, with the fixes suggested by Charles, so I merged that. If it turns out that the combination of various copyright statements into summaries (see [1]) is a bad idea, legally speaking, then we can just not do that. It should not affect the DEP-5 format, I think, so I don't want to postpone this change until legal minds have figured it out. [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2010/10/msg00101.html On to the next topics... -- 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/1289676794.6260.14.ca...@havelock.lan