On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Steve Langasek <[email protected]> writes: > > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:13:57PM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
> >> We should say explicitly that the copyright field is a rollup of all > >> relevant copyright declarations for that group of files, yes. > > Russ, can you suggest some language around this? "rollup" just conjures > > images of children's fruit snacks for me. :) > How about this (written without looking at the detailed wording of the > document, so may need some massaging to fit into the flow): > The Copyright field collects all relevant copyright notices for the > files of this stanza. Not all copyright notices may apply to every > individual file, and years of publication for one copyright holder may > be gathered together. For example, if file A has: > > Copyright 2008 John Smith > Copyright 2009 Angela Watts > > and file B has: > > Copyright 2010 Angela Watts > > the Copyright field for a stanza covering both file A and file B need > contain only: > > Copyright 2008 John Smith > Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts I think that clarifies it pretty well, thanks. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ [email protected] [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
