Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements

2010-08-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Lars Wirzenius 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 to c

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 indi

Re: DEP-5: Structure for multiple copyright statements

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Finney
Lars Wirzenius 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 t

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

2010-08-21 Thread Ben Finney
Russ Allbery writes: > Ben Finney writes: > > Lars Wirzenius 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. > > Unfortunately, this creates real challenges fo

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 (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 > diffic

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 > difficul