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 >
