Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-22 Thread gregor herrmann
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 06:42:19 +, Bart Martens wrote: I'm personally not a fan of DEP5, because I have not yet seen any benefits, only more work for the packager, and less readable for humans than plain text. Side remark: I personally find a structured Copyright-Format 1.0 file much easier

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-22 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Bart Martens ba...@debian.org writes: I'm personally not a fan of DEP5, because I have not yet seen any benefits, I wrote git-copyright-scan to be able to automatically update the list of copyright holders from git: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2011/04/msg7.html I couldn't

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:00:59PM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: I've read the policy but still confused, if some one can help, please take a look.

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Finney
Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org wrote: If you intend to package this software, then please retitle [bug report #392333] to ITP and set yourself as the owner. I would like, but not sure yet I have skills *today*.

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Finney
Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com writes: 1) should a package 'inherit' license from the original COPYING file if not stated otherwise ? I don't know how to understand that sentence. If you are asking whether the mere presence of a ‘COPYING’ file, but no explicit license grant, applies

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 16 July 2012 04:00:17 Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: You still have to look through your debian/copyright file manually to check for any mistakes or inconsistencies, but at the very least, the syntax would be correct. There's also a DEP-5 parser that you can use to check the syntax

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.auwrote: Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com writes: 1) should a package 'inherit' license from the original COPYING file if not stated otherwise ? I don't know how to understand that sentence. If you are asking

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Ben Finney
Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.auwrote: The grant needs to be explicit, written, specifying exactly what work is being licensed, in a statement from the copyright holder. Ideally of the form: This is

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread gustavo panizzo gfa
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:59:51AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: I don know any real life proper multi-license new format Debian package to use as a reference, cd /usr/share/doc find . -name copyright |xargs grep 'http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/' -- 1AE0

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:41 AM, gustavo panizzo gfa g...@zumbi.com.arwrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:59:51AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: I don know any real life proper multi-license new format Debian package to use as a reference, cd /usr/share/doc find . -name copyright |xargs

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread The Fungi
On 2012-07-16 10:35:03 -0400 (-0400), Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: Sorry, but not helpful. They only represent ~13% on nearly default Wheezy setup [...] While still not a perfect example, my weather-util package has ISC-licensed and public domain components...

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread gustavo panizzo
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:35:03AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:41 AM, gustavo panizzo gfa g...@zumbi.com.arwrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:59:51AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: I don know any real life proper multi-license new format Debian package to

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Monday 16 July 2012 14:59:51 Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: I don know any real life proper multi-license new format Debian package to use as a reference, which makes packaging for beginner even harder. Here's one that was not trivial to write:

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Dominique Dumont d...@debian.org wrote: On Monday 16 July 2012 14:59:51 Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: I don know any real life proper multi-license new format Debian package to use as a reference, which makes packaging for beginner even harder. Here's one that was

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au writes: Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com writes: 2) Which license do have auto generated files, like 'configure', 'Makefile', *am', etc ? If there is no human creativity in the generation of the files, then my understanding of international

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com writes: I don know any real life proper multi-license new format Debian package to use as a reference, which makes packaging for beginner even harder. http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/r/remctl/current/copyright includes all of the

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-16 Thread Charles Plessy
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 9:41 AM, gustavo panizzo gfa g...@zumbi.com.arwrote: cd /usr/share/doc find . -name copyright |xargs grep 'http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/' Le Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 10:35:03AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka a écrit : Sorry, but not

Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? I'm trying to build a package for irrtoolset http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392333 but the source code has multiple licenses, one file licence a, another b and so on. I've told that I have to

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Bart Martens
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? No idea. I'm trying to build a package for irrtoolset http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=392333 If you intend to package

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Daniel Martí
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:04:25PM +, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? No idea. Probably not. As far as I have seen the debian/copyright file is

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Etienne Millon
* Daniel Martí mv...@mvdan.cc [120715 20:17]: Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? No idea. Probably not. As far as I have seen the debian/copyright file is carefully made, since not only the licenses must be listed but the copyright owners too. Hello,

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Eric Lavarde
Hi, On 15/07/12 20:08, Daniel Martí wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 06:04:25PM +, Bart Martens wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? No idea. Probably not. As far as

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Bart Martens ba...@debian.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:51:46AM -0400, Aliaksei Sheshka wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? No idea. I'm trying to build a package for irrtoolset

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Vincent Cheng
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 debian/copyright You still have to look through your

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.comwrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Aliaksei Sheshka sheshka...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Debian-Mentors! Is anyone aware/have a script to populate debian/copyright file ? $ licensecheck --copyright -r . |

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Ben Finney
Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com writes: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 debian/copyright You still have to look through your debian/copyright file manually to check for any mistakes or inconsistencies, but at the very least, the syntax would be

Re: Any script to populate debian/copyright file ?

2012-07-15 Thread Aliaksei Sheshka
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Ben Finney ben+deb...@benfinney.id.auwrote: Vincent Cheng vincentc1...@gmail.com writes: $ licensecheck --copyright -r . | /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 debian/copyright You still have to look through your debian/copyright file manually to check