On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:02:45 -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote: > >> How would we represent such a case? Would we need to unpack that > >> tarball and then reference the files appropriately? > > Unpacking the tarballs would mean modifying the pristine upstream tar, > > wouldn't it? I don't think we want to do that. > That's what we've had to do,
Right, but only temporarily for getting the information.
> But that loses information there. And I don't think that's the way
> we're supposed to do things (in the pkg-perl packages we track each
> license separately).
Maybe we could use "sub-stanzas" like
Files: tarball1.tar.gz
Copyright: xxxx, main author
License: GPL-1 | Artistic
X-Comment: this tarball also contains
Files: foo.pl
Copyright: yyyy, some other guy
License: Apache-2.0
etc. Or whatever creative stuff we can imagine :)
> > And these tarballs contain files with differing copyright holders? Congrats
> > on finding a strange corner case. :)
:)
Cheers,
gregor
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