On Sunday, April 13, 2025 10:42:33 AM Mountain Standard Time Sébastien Noel wrote: > On 13/04/25 19:29, Phil Wyett wrote: > > No, you do not need to add this. LEft in output in error. > > ok thanks > > >> [...] > >> The value of the "License" field can't have space. > >> "Expat and/or Unlicense" isn't allowed; how I am supposed to > >> express this in the dep5 format ? > > > > Spaces are allowed. > > no they are not. Here is what Lintian as to say if I include a > snippet "License: Expat and/or Unlicense" : > > W: plutovg source: space-in-std-shortname-in-dep5-copyright expat > and/or unlicense
I think what is causing the issue is “and/or”. “and/or” makes no sense in a debian/copyright license. It is either “and” or it is “or”. If the upstream license says “and/or”, that means it is “or”, and debian/copyright should just say “or”. As an example, look at the following. https://salsa.debian.org/debian/courier/-/blob/master/debian/ copyright?ref_type=heads > >> As far as I understand the requirements, I need to document > >> *copyright holders* in d/copyright, not every single > >> contributors. > >> Did I misunderstood something ? > > > > These files are the result of bad development practice. Who knows > > who claims copyright here. > > well... I read this line in the files : > "Copyright (c) 2017 Sean Barrett" > The other peoples are credited above "ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS". > If you don't trust upstream on this, I'm sorry but what are we even > trying to do with d/copyright ?? > > > I would list all contributors, but that is me. As I said a DD > > may upload for you deciding that researching correct licensing > > will take a great deal of time and upload requiring the work to > > be done. They also may upload deciding it maybe too much work and > > it can pass with primary developer being enough in > > 'debian/copyright. You only need to list people for whom copyright is asserted. You do not need to list all the contributors. Many projects have contributors assign copyright to the organization, but still list the contributors names. Those names do not need to be enumerated in debian/copyright as long as nothing upstream asserts they have copyright. An interesting example of this is electrum. The main copyright is: 2011-2024 The Electrum Developers However, there are a number of files with headers that contain explicit copyrights, so the full copyright information for Files: * is: 2011-2024 The Electrum Developers 2011-2024 Thomas Voegtlin <thomasv@gitorious> 2012 thom...@ecdsa.org 2013 ecdsa@github 2014 David Lazar <laz...@mit.edu> 2015 kyuupichan@gmail 2017 Pieter Wuille 2018 Adam Gibson (waxwing) 2018 Andrew R. Kozlik 2019 Axel Gembe <der...@gmail.com> 2023-2024 Soren Stoutner <so...@debian.org> https://salsa.debian.org/cryptocoin-team/electrum/-/blob/master/ debian/copyright?ref_type=heads There is also an AUTHORS file that lists contributors. Not all of them are included in debian/copyright because not all of them have explicit copyright claims in the upstream code. https://salsa.debian.org/cryptocoin-team/electrum/-/blob/master/ AUTHORS?ref_type=heads -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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