Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Chow Loong Jin
On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? I personally use: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 debian/copyright And then manually modify debian/copyright to

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le Wednesday 18 January 2012 09:03:14, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : I personally use: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 debian/copyright And then manually modify debian/copyright to compress entries to satisfaction. Oooh, that's a good one. I'll probably reuse

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Miller
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 16:03 +0800, Chow Loong Jin wrote: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 debian/copyright That is just what I was looking for, although I doubt I'll be editing the output, just adding it to my build system, next to where I build the Debian

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Peter Miller
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au writes: My understanding is that all project files are covered, although wildcards are permitted. Each different copyright x license combination needs its own separate entry. I don't think

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Note that Copyright (C) 2008 Peter Miller is different than Copyright (C) 2011 Peter Miller is different than Copyright (C) 1991, 2012 Peter Miller, so the cross product is going to be substantial for long lived projects, even when the number of

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Josue Abarca
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 09:36:07PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 20:01 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au writes: ... While I'm banging on about semantics, when you are looking up a file by name, is it the first file name pattern match that

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:03:14PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? I personally use: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . |

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-18 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
On 12-01-18 at 08:31pm, Charles Plessy wrote: Le Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 04:03:14PM +0800, Chow Loong Jin a écrit : On 18/01/2012 10:09, Peter Miller wrote: Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? I personally use: $

Re: DEP-5: Clarifying copyright/license requirements (was: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.)

2012-01-18 Thread Russ Allbery
Pushing this towards debian-project, which is where the DEP-5 discussion is supposed to happen. Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au writes: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ Files paragraph (Repeatable) The declaration of copyright and license for files is done in

Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Charles Plessy
Dear FTP Masters, in http://bugs.debian.org/462996, me and others have expressed interest to have a written document that describes precisely what the Debian copyright file must contain. Do you think it is realisable, and if yes, how could we help you ? Would you like to be submitted a draft ?

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Peter Miller
On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: interest to have a written document that describes precisely what the Debian copyright file must contain. Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? I am my own upstream for

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Miller peter.miller@gmail.com writes: Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate the DEP-5 debian/copyright file? I am my own upstream for many projects, and some of them have thousands of source files. There is no way I am going to write and maintain

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Peter Miller wrote: On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:49 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: interest to have a written document that describes precisely what the Debian copyright file must contain. Are there any plans to write a tool to scan a project tree and generate the DEP-5 debian/copyright file?

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Peter Miller
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 18:20 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Peter Miller peter.miller@gmail.com writes: This objection makes me think that you believe that more information is required by the DEP-5 format than is in your existing debian/copyright files. My understanding is that all project

Re: Clarifying the mandatory contents of the Debian copyright file.

2012-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au writes: My understanding is that all project files are covered, although wildcards are permitted. Each different copyright x license combination needs its own separate entry. I don't think this is the case. I see no reason why you couldn't just have a