On 07/21/2008 03:20 PM, Richard Hurt wrote : > OK, I am attempting to package up redmine and need some general > pointers. I'm going through the New Maintainers Guide tutorial and have > run into a few things that I need clarification on. > > 1) Is there any type of automated way to extract license info from a > series of files? I am using a simple grep to do my heavy lifting but it > seems pretty crude; has no one built anything better? > > 2) redmine itself is under GPL-2 but there are some files in the archive > under various other license (MIT, LGPL, Ruby) and some files have no > license at all. How do I represent this information in the > debian/copyright file? Listing each file and it's license individually > would be overwhelming. What is the best practice here? You'll have to have all this information in the copyright file. If you like, have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat on how you could format this information. Usually, there are only finitely many different combinations of copyright/license, to which you can list the corresponding files, possibly using wildcards like *,? ...
Good luck! ;-) Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
