Christian PERRIER wrote: > Fixing this should be easy....as long as one *does* find copyrights in > the files provided by a given package. > > For instance: > > bubulle@sesostris:~/src/debian/debian-installer/trunk/packages/partman-efi(master) > $ licensecheck -r --copyright * > bubulle@sesostris:~/src/debian/debian-installer/trunk/packages/partman-efi(master) > $ > > What is the recommended practice in such case?
"This package is under the GNU GPL version 2, or any later
version at your option."
That's a clear statement of the license of every file in the package,
unless some file overrides it with its own license statement.
> Just assign the copyright collectively (but to what entity)?
There seems to be no problem with naming any obvious major contributors
(the original author of the package for example) and then adding
2007-2012, many Debian contributors
... Which I found in the machine-readable copyright file of debian-policy.
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