DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements (was: DEP-5: general file syntax)

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: * Have one copyright statement per Copyright field, and have multiple instances of the field. This is my preference, and what I've been doing in my packages.

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements (was: DEP-5: general file syntax)

2010-08-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On su, 2010-08-22 at 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Could we take advantage of the natural “©” marker to indicate each copyright statement? That's an interesting idea, but would people in general find it easy or difficult to write that character? (I'd have to copy-paste it, for instance, since

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: On su, 2010-08-22 at 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Could we take advantage of the natural “©” marker to indicate each copyright statement? That's an interesting idea, but would people in general find it easy or difficult to write that character? (I'd have

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements (was: DEP-5: general file syntax)

2010-08-21 Thread Roger Leigh
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:36:54AM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On su, 2010-08-22 at 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Could we take advantage of the natural “©” marker to indicate each copyright statement? That's an interesting idea, but would people in general find it easy or difficult to

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements

2010-08-21 Thread Lars Wirzenius
On la, 2010-08-21 at 16:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Ideally, I'd like to just copy and paste upstream's copyright statements into debian/copyright and maybe do some compaction, which leads me to prefer a free-form field. Do we think that people are going to want to parse and extract

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements (was: DEP-5: general file syntax)

2010-08-21 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:36:54AM +1200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: On su, 2010-08-22 at 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Could we take advantage of the natural “©” marker to indicate each copyright statement? That's an interesting idea, but would people in general find it easy or difficult to

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Finney
Lars Wirzenius l...@liw.fi writes: On su, 2010-08-22 at 08:00 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: Could we take advantage of the natural “©” marker to indicate each copyright statement? That's an interesting idea, but would people in general find it easy or difficult to write that character? (I'd