debian/copyright vs year/author permutations

2008-10-09 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi, Given that accurately listing the copyright holder (together with the years) for all files in a package is encouraged/required, I'm wondering how to deal with the following problem: In one of my packages, there are hundreds of files, most of which have more than copyright holder, but since th

Re: debian/copyright vs year/author permutations

2008-10-12 Thread MJ Ray
Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This means that if I want to describe the copyright of each file > accurately, using a format like: > > foo/bar.c: > copyright 1999,2004 John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > copyright 2000-2004 Jane Other <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > foo/baz.cpp: > copyright 19