Charles Plessy <[email protected]> writes: > similarly to Lars' proposition to recycle the License and Copyright > fields in the header, how about using the Disclaimer and Name fields for > your purposes?
> Disclaimer: > All individual files with no other license statement are released > under this license. Some files have additional copyright dates from > earlier releases or may be owned by other copyright holders as noted > in those files. Some files are… No, I would prefer to keep Disclaimer for its current purpose, which is distinct from a free-form comment. > And to indicate that some files are not the original work of the maintainers: > Files: config.sub config.guess > Name: Autoconf > Copyright: © 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, > 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 > Free Software Foundation, Inc. > License: GPL-2+ with Autoconf exception > Files: zconf.h > Copyright: © 1995-1998 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler > License: zlib > Name: zlib I would not have guessed that was what Name meant without your message putting it in context, and I would really like to be able to have freeform text here so that I can say other things where needed, like the date at which I last synchronized source or to mention that the files are slightly modified. -- 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]
