Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license? This software is licensed under the terms of the BSD license, which can be found on Debian systems in the file /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD or from

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-28 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:06:05 +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just to be sure, is the following enough for the BSD license? [...] The license was modified to reflect that $AUTHOR, not the Regents of the University of California, is the

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-28 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Luca Capello 2006-03-28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please correct me if I'm wrong :-) That's what I intended to say, sorry if I made the impression of contradicting you. The point was that some people new to packaging seem to think that they don't have to include the full license, and if the license

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-28 Thread Matthias Julius
Luca Capello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Debian Policy Manual] 12.5 Copyright information Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. This file must neither be compressed nor be a symbolic

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Robert Collins
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 21:20 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am packaging a program for debian, and wrote a manpage and two patches for making it compile with libwxwindows. I am not very interested in being the author list: I would be a bit ashamed

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Christoph Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Raphael Hertzog 2006-03-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each package with translations has several dozens of copyright holder, we don't have to keep that list in the copyright file, do we ? And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. The

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. The generated autofoo stuff does not end up in the .deb, so the copyright file needs not describe it. It often ends up in the source package (depending when you run the autotools), which we do

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. The generated autofoo stuff does not end up in the .deb, so the copyright file needs not describe it. It often ends up in the source

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Frank Küster
Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Scripsit Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Henning Makholm wrote: And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. The generated autofoo stuff does not end up in the .deb, so the copyright file needs not

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10605 March 1977, Florian Weimer wrote: As *many* rejects out of the NEW-Queue[2] are still due to broken or incomplete copyright-files - lets refresh that information. Just for clarification, since there seems to be this increased interest in copyright notices: Do developers need to

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10606 March 1977, Henning Makholm wrote: But is the Debian copyright file supposed to describe the source package? Not according to my understanding; the source package already includes the various upstream copyright messages in their original positions. We distribute the source, and the

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 10606 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: I am packaging a program for debian, and wrote a manpage and two patches for making it compile with libwxwindows. I am not very interested in being the author list: I would be a bit ashamed that my name would appear more frequently that the author's

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-27 Thread Luca Capello
Hello! On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:29:48 +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Some extra hints: - Its not enough to have the following two-liner: | On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public | License can be found in the `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL' | file. There are

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joerg Jaspert: As *many* rejects out of the NEW-Queue[2] are still due to broken or incomplete copyright-files - lets refresh that information. Just for clarification, since there seems to be this increased interest in copyright notices: Do developers need to verify that these copyright

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Joerg Jaspert wrote: In many packages there is more than one author, more than one copyright-holder and more than one license. Do not miss to list them all, even if that other license is just for one file. Yes, any single file is important. Each package with translations

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Raphael Hertzog 2006-03-26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Each package with translations has several dozens of copyright holder, we don't have to keep that list in the copyright file, do we ? And we ignore any (C) FSF in generated autofoo stuff. Christoph -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.df7cb.de/

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Charles Plessy
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:29:48PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote : In many packages there is more than one author, more than one copyright-holder and more than one license. Do not miss to list them all, even if that other license is just for one file. Yes, any single file is important. Dear

Re: How (not) to write copyright files - take two

2006-03-26 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am packaging a program for debian, and wrote a manpage and two patches for making it compile with libwxwindows. I am not very interested in being the author list: I would be a bit ashamed that my name would appear more frequently that the author's