On September 14, 2015 12:19:52 PM EDT, Adrien Grellier <pe...@adrieng.fr> wrote: >Hi, > >Why I updated the copyright ? > >Calligra is nearly ready to be uploaded to sid. I am just like you : >not much >time to dedicate to calligra. So I just take the current procedure to >update >the copyright file, et voila. Users are asking for calligra in sid, and >with >the GCC-5 transition, we better upload a new version soon. > >As I said before, I like to have a clean, reproducible procedure, and >well >documented. That's why I created the README.source. I like it because I > >usually can't remember how to do all the stuff, and it's much simpler >for >newcomer to understand the packaging. > >If you want to improve the procedure, just like we all have done >before, >you're totally welcome to do it! > >But for now, I have seen you trashing all our work, without discussing >it >before. You replace it by your work, unfinished, without document it. >It's not >a way of working together! So please document precisely your way of >creating >and updating the copyright, so we can reproduce it quickly, and then we >may >discuss it, to balance the pros and cons. > >You proposed to mix GPL and LGPL license in one paragraph. I am not >sure it's >a good idea. If someone wants to take only the LGPL parts, for instance >to >integrate non free modifications in it, he cannot use the copyright >file for >it. >But I am not sure about the goal of the debian/copyright file: is it >mean to >be readable by a human ? or only by scripts ? > >I agree that grouping the versions of a same license together is a good >idea. > >And what the others in the team are thinking about it ?
The purpose of debian/copyright is to make Debian in compliance with the licenses used by upstream. These generally require inclusion of the licenses and copyright notices. While automation can sometimes produce a decent first approximation, I've yet to see a nontrivial case it gets right. As a member of the FTP Team, I see a wide variety of things from throughout Debian and I think Dmitry is on the right track. Debian/copyright is for humans (to answer one part of your question). If not all of the third party packages are used, you might try Copyright format 1.0 and Files-Excluded to easily keep them out of the tarball. That way there's that much less to document. Scott K
