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 writes: > http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/ > "Files paragraph (Repeatable) > > "The declaration of copyright and license for files is done in > one or mo

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

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 . | /usr/lib/cdbs/lic

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 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 applies, or the last, >

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

2012-01-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
Russ Allbery 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 contributors

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 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

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 p

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

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 t

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

2012-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Miller 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 Files: * stanza that

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 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 files are covered, alth

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

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

2012-01-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Peter Miller 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 > debian/copyright in D

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

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 ?