Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Ben Finney <[email protected]> writes: > > Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> writes: > > >> * Have one copyright statement per Copyright field, and have multiple > >> instances of the field. > > > This is my preference, and what I've been doing in my packages. > > Unfortunately, this creates real challenges for parsers. […]
Okay, I can see that. Thanks for explaining. Lars Wirzenius <[email protected]> writes: > On la, 2010-08-21 at 02:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > What happens when the copyright statement is longer than a line? I > > have a bunch of those, such as: > > Good point. I see at least thw following possible solutions: > > * Keep one line per copyright statement, but make the lines be long. > (This is what we have now.) Could we take advantage of the natural “©” marker to indicate each copyright statement? Specification off the top of my head, that hopefully shows what I mean: The ‘Copyright’ field must contain one or more copyright statements. Each virtual line of the field value is a single copyright statement. Each copyright statement must begin with the “©” character (U+00A9 COPYRIGHT SIGN) at the start of a virtual line. Each physical line which does not begin with “©” is a continuation of the previous virtual line in the same field. Contrived examples: Files: * Copyright: © 2009 Frank Foo <[email protected]> Files: doc/* Copyright: © 1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009 Beatrice Bar <[email protected]> © 2008, 2010 Barry Baz <[email protected]> -- \ “The long-term solution to mountains of waste is not more | `\ landfill sites but fewer shopping centres.” —Clive Hamilton, | _o__) _Affluenza_, 2005 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
