Craig Small <[email protected]> writes: > I actually second Bernd's comments. It seems uneccessarily complex and > so very much harder to read. It's especially insane if you have multiple > authors and where the license stays the same but the copyright years > change.
I combine all the copyright notices into one block with that license. I don't see anything in the DEP-5 format that says you can't do that, but if there is anything, clearly we should fix that. Legally, I believe doing that is fine. > My suggestions: > * Split out the authors and the copyright dates into one chunk. The > fact that fileA is copyright 2005 Joe and fileB is copyright 2006 > Fred and then fileC is copyright 2006 both of this is completely > irrelevant for most people, just that Joe and Fred have copyright > of some parts of the package is enough. I think *allowing* this would be fine, but *requiring* that the authors be separated from the corresponding license block is a bad idea. It's often quite easy to retain this (by just copying the copyright and license from a portion of the package), and I personally don't want to lose that information. > * Make it possible to say "this package is licensed under foo > except fileA which is licensed under bar" I'm not sure why you don't think this is already possible. I do this all the time using the existing DEP-5 specification. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
