Jim Walker wrote:
> George Vasick wrote:
>> Jim Walker wrote:
>>> George Vasick wrote:
>>>> Hi Paul,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for you help.  Changes made and webrev updated:
>>>>
>>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~gvasick/gm4/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Copyright file needs a GPLv3 disclaimer and copyright
>>> statements from the source code like this:
>>> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~jleser/nano-2009.02.27/usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWgnu-nano/copyright.html
>>>  
>>
>>
>>
>> OK, made the change and updated the webrev.
> 
> You still don't have the copyright statements for the source code:
> 
> For example something like this:
> 
> Copyright (C) 1999-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

Sorry, I missed that on my first try.

I greped through the sources and found copyrights ranging from 1985 
through 2008.  I created a line as follows:

Copyright (C) 1985-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> 
>> For future reference, is there a template we should use for the 
>> copyright files or do we just cut and paste from the copyright in 
>> another package?
> 
> Not really. Most people don't grok this, so here more detail.
> 
> The copyright file has three parts:
> 
> 1) Disclaimer [optional] (normally for GPL and a few other license types)
> 2) Copyright statements from the source code files
> 3) Full license text
> 
> The OSR should provide the Disclaimer information, but there
> are only a few variants so you can cut and past as long as you
> make sure it's the correct one. In this case, it's for GPLv3.
> GPLv2 would be different.
> 
> But, the Copyright statements and full license text are
> unique to the package source and should not be copied from
> another package. They should match what's in the package.

I think I got it now.

Thanks,
George

> 
> Cheers,
> Jim
> 

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