Hi Chris, On 25.07.2018 14:19, Chris Lamb wrote: > I just ACCEPTed rawtran from NEW but was wondering if you could split > out the "Files" paragraph in debian/copyright: > > 6 Files: * > 7 Copyright: (c) 2008-2018 Filip Hroch > 8 (Debian files) > > .. is better written as: > > Files: * > Copyright: (c) 2008-2018 Filip Hroch <hr...@physics.muni.cz> > License: GPL-3 > > Files: debian/* > Copyright: (c) 2016,2018 Filip Hroch <hr...@physics.muni.cz> > License: GPL-3 > > License: GPL-3 > [etc]
I still fail to understand the rationale: DEP-5 (5.2.1) allows to combine the copyrights for the same license in one paragraphs: | Whether to combine paragraphs with the same grant of license is left | to the discretion of the author of the debian/copyright file. What would be the advantage to split the paragraph? It just makes the file longer. Being able to automatically derive exactly the copyright holder of debian/* (or any other file) is obviously not the scope of d/copyright. Best regards Ole
