On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:00, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:16:07AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:21, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote: >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:12, Felipe Sateler <fsate...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:00, Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Please see http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/PrefaceHistory.html for a >>>>> short summary of the csound manual. >>>> >>>> And BTW, there is code in debian/rules that parses that page to generate >>>> a non exhaustive list of contributors. It is currently commented out, >>>> though. It is in common-post-build-indep. >>> >>> I lost you here. What is it you are trying to say? >>> >>> You insist that it is ok to cover most authors as "and others" instead of >>> listing their names explicitly in debian/copyright, yet you ask me to go >>> investigate the details. Why? >> >> Sorry for being confusing. I have to admit I was very unclear. >> >> The page lists the complicated history of the manual. The important part >> is that the licensing was some non commercial license, and MIT held the >> rights to change that (Barry Vercoe et al were working at MIT while >> developing csound and the manual). Finally the licensing was changed to >> GFDL, and the manual moved to a sourceforge CVS repository, where the >> current development is still done. There is no way we can track who did what >> change to which file, but the best we can do is expand the "Andres Cabrera >> and others" to a list of 35 names and still have the "and others". > > I think at least we should document the situation in debian/copyright, then. > Not needed to include all history, only status quo is relevant (if possible > without laying it all out)
How to do that in the dep5 format? >. And not all contributors are relevant, only > those claiming copyright. I believe this is wrong. Authors have copyright have they explicitly claimed it or not. > > >> And BTW, the code is broken :p. > > How so? Something I did? No, merely the page changed so the sed invocation was not correct. -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers