Am 28.11.2012 19:44, schrieb Francesco Poli (wintermute):
Please perform a new licensing audit and update the debian/copyright file. Maybe this could be the opportunity to switch to the new machine-readable debian/copyright file format [2]...
I tried to tackle this issue down yesterday by using a combination of "licensecheck -r --copyright" and "/u/l/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5". "Should be mostly LGPL-2+ with some GPL-2+ files..." I thought.
Well, I was mostly right, but the resulting copyright template was nearly 4000 lines long. An estimated 90% of these were "License: LGPL-2+" stanzas with partially only slightly varying combinations of Copyright holders. However, I wanted the new file to be in the same style as the copyright file we currently have in libav. That is "Files: *", then a list of *all* copyright holders, then "License: LGPL-2+" and then mention of the exceptions to this rule in separate stanzas. I tried to modify the licensecheck2dep5 script to match this need, but I have to admit that I am completely incapable of reading and writing Perl code and after short time my brain literally hurt.
Jonas, could you please help me and reveal how I have to modify the licensecheck2dep5 script to combine all Files and Copyright holders for which the same License applies into one single stanza?
Thanks! - Fabian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
