On 2022-09-29 10:22, Jochen Sprickerhof wrote:
But why does decopy strip "et al."?
I looked into the git history but there is no comment why it was added.
It's part of the name normalization logic, it could be extended so if
the author is set as "$name et all" somewhere to show the entry as such,
even if it's listed as "$name" everywhere else. But I don't really see
value in the added information (see bellow), thus it's just dropped.
(in retrospective, it would have been better to call that piece of code
name normalization instead of simply applying some regexps.)
What's the copyright information that you are adding by that? Who is
others, who would you contact if you need to relicense? Why et all in
french and, not any of the other languages of the world? Any of this
information is relevant to a Debian package?
And what's the correct way to specify that a copyright is owned
by one main owner plus many other co-owners?
I'm actually not sure of the implication of this. Stating that there
is someone besides the named person holding the copyright does not
really give you any information.
:)
I mean, the correct way for decopy.
If you really want to add it, you could first off all separate it from
the first name. So in your example make Masato Taruishi and et al. two
separate entries:
2002-2020, Masato Taruishi
2002-2020, et alii (or others or..)
Whatever you add in the debian/copyright should be maintained, that's
the original intention (unless the files mentioned are no longer
present).
Sadly this part also is missing a normalization logic to merge with the
found authors. I thought I would do that for the diff mode.
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Saludos /\/\ /\ >< `/
