On 25-Jun-09, at 11:51 PM, Paul Cunningham wrote: > > > John Sonnenschein wrote: >> Paul Cunningham wrote: >>> >>> >>> John Sonnenschein wrote: >>>> I'm not sure what you mean by this: >>>> >>>> > 5. usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWperl510/copyright >>>> > Add source owner copyright lines, extracted from the >>>> > files in the unpacked src tarball. >>>> do you mean in the copyright file dump something like: >>>> >>>> /* >>>> * Copyright (c) 2006, 2007, Larry Wall and others >>>> * >>>> * You may distribute under the terms of either the GNU General >>>> Public License >>>> * or the Artistic License, as specified in the README file. >>>> */ >>> >>> for example see ... >>> "http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWmeld/copyright >>> >>> " >>> the copyright lines are extracted by ... >>> unpacking the tar ball >>> cd unpacked-src-dir >>> find . -depth | xargs grep "Copyright" >>> and the using a the appropriate stuff from that output. >>> >>> Hope that helps >> That's about 800 lines of copyright. Is this strictly necessary ? > > you don't have to put them all in, just the unique ones and you can > probably reduces ones such as ... > > Copyright 1997-2001 A Body > Copyright 1999-2007 A Body > Copyright 1998 C Oder > Copyright 2000 C Oder > Copyright 2007 C Oder > to say .. > Copyright 1997-2007 A Body > Copyright 1998, 2000, 2007 C Oder > > but check with someone who knows more about this sort of legal > stuff, eg. Jim Walker <James.Walker at Sun.COM>. > > paul
even reduced that will be several hundred lines of copyright attributions. Perl is typically attributed to "Larry Wall and others" I'm not sure if it ought to be necessary to dump all the copyrights in to the file ( as legal has not advised me to do so ). That said, I'll forward this to Jim & hopefully he can advise. -JohnS
