[ CC Kernel list ] Dear Marga, Maxy,
Hope you're doing well. (In case you don't remember me, I'm the guy shared the same uber with you from airport to Fuller Hall in Cape Town for DebConf16) I saw the post about decopy on debian planet [0]. Thanks for your work, the idea is really nice! And recently I happened to find there's a license missing in debian/copyright of kernel package, and I just added to git repo of kernel package [1]. [0] http://www.marga.com.ar/blog/index.cgi/debian/Decopy.html [1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/diff/debian/copyright?id=4dea43&id2=f98828 There's so many files in kernel package, so it's really difficult for human to check and record license of each source file, and ever harder to do the same work for each kernel release. I think your tool may be the best to use for such case. However I find current decopy in unstable cannot work for kernel: $ decopy --output /tmp/copyright /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/debian/copyright.py:447: UserWarning: Files paragraph missing Copyright field warnings.warn('Files paragraph missing Copyright field') Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/decopy", line 11, in <module> load_entry_point('Decopy==0.1', 'console_scripts', 'decopy')() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/decopy/decopy.py", line 61, in main copyright_.process(filetree) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/decopy/dep5.py", line 95, in process self._process_groups(filetree, files_paragraphs) File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/decopy/dep5.py", line 144, in _process_groups for value in paragraph.copyright.split('\n'): AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'split' So maybe you can add the items below to your todo list: - Add GPL/X11 license to your license library (I guess you don't have it currently, and quite a few device-tree source file of linux is under this license) - make decopy workable for linux kernel Of course you may have other priorities, but if you can make decopy working for big project like kernel some day, it'll be really awesome. Cheers, -- Roger Shimizu, GMT +9 Tokyo PGP/GPG: 4096R/6C6ACD6417B3ACB1
