T o n g <[email protected]> writes:

> If I take a simple file (BSD-licensed), (greatly) improved it, and 
> include it in my package. How should I handle the situation? 

> - I should claim that the author of the new file is me, right?

Usually I list both authors, such as:

 * Written by Larry Schwimmer
 * Extensively modified by Russ Allbery <[email protected]>

from one of my projects.

> - I should inherit the BSD-licensed, right?

Yes, almost always.

> - How to express that the new file was based on another old file from a 
> different author in the debian/copyright file?

Copyright: 2003-2008 John Doe
  2014 Jane Doe

In other words, you can list multiple copyright holders.  I usually use
two spaces at the start of subsequent lines to suppress word wrapping.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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