Re: copyright files can be generated by cme (was Re: Copyright file granularity)

2015-11-15 Thread Dominique Dumont
On Saturday 14 November 2015 16:02:18 Neil Williams wrote: > scan-copyrights must get much better handling of non-text formats. > I tried it with a package containing a lot of png files, the example at > the top of the manpage failed because the output of scan-copyrights was > a binary file. (It's

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-15 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Osamu Aoki (2015-11-15 04:07:10) > Please note one type of de-facto exception which is not documented but > widely accepted. FTP master has accepted such packages with the GNU > permissive type license on autotools generated files. I see almost no > one follow the rule literary on thes

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 10:51:11AM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: ... > It is important to list all copyright holders; this is not something that > it's "easy enough" to look up in the source, because many of these free > software licenses require that you reproduce the copyright statement > whe

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:51:11 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > [...] > > And we should have better tools to generate debian/copyright files - this > > shouldn't be an inten

Re: copyright files can be generated by cme (was Re: Copyright file granularity)

2015-11-14 Thread Neil Williams
On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:28:02 +0100 Dominique Dumont wrote: > Le vendredi 13 novembre 2015, 16:10:14 16:10:14 Wookey a écrit : > > However there are numerous copyright holders and files contributed > > on various dates so I spent several hours making this copyright > > file: > > https://sources.de

copyright files can be generated by cme (was Re: Copyright file granularity)

2015-11-14 Thread Dominique Dumont
Le vendredi 13 novembre 2015, 16:10:14 16:10:14 Wookey a écrit : > However there are numerous copyright holders and files contributed on > various dates so I spent several hours making this copyright file: > https://sources.debian.net/src/ompl/1.0.0%2Bds2-1/debian/copyright/ > with each copyright o

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 08:34:11PM +0100, Stephen Kitt wrote: > On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:51:11 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > [...] > > And we should have better tools to generate debian/copyright files - this > > shouldn't be an intensive

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Wookey
+++ Steve Langasek [2015-11-13 10:51 -0800]: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > > I've been helping package a load of stuff recently for Robot OS and in > > checking the copyright files I've come up aginst the question of exactly > > how much segmentation there should be in

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Steve Langasek writes: > shouldn't be an intensive manual process. Unfortunately the only tool I'm > aware of that does this is coupled to cdbs. I wrote http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/git/git-copyright-scan.git/ to update debian/copyright based on upstream git history. There's no documentation and it

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Clint Byrum
Excerpts from Steve Langasek's message of 2015-11-13 10:51:11 -0800: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > > I've been helping package a load of stuff recently for Robot OS and in > > checking the copyright files I've come up aginst the question of exactly > > how much segment

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Stephen Kitt
On Fri, 13 Nov 2015 10:51:11 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: [...] > And we should have better tools to generate debian/copyright files - this > shouldn't be an intensive manual process. Unfortunately the only tool I'm > aware of that does th

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 04:10:14PM +, Wookey wrote: > I've been helping package a load of stuff recently for Robot OS and in > checking the copyright files I've come up aginst the question of exactly > how much segmentation there should be in copyright files, and the answer > to that depends on

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Maximiliano Curia
On 13/11/15 17:10, Wookey wrote: > The criteria that makes most sense to me is 'by licence'. +1 > I just uploaded rosdistro > (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ros-rosdistro) and got a comment from > the reviewing ftpmaster that combining the two different copyright holders > for BSD-3-clause file

Re: Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 13-11-15 17:10, Wookey wrote: > The criteria that makes most sense to me is 'by licence'. The machine readable copyright file definition says this: """The Copyright field collects all relevant copyright notices for the files of this paragraph. Not all copyright notices may apply to every i

Copyright file granularity

2015-11-13 Thread Wookey
I've been helping package a load of stuff recently for Robot OS and in checking the copyright files I've come up aginst the question of exactly how much segmentation there should be in copyright files, and the answer to that depends on what it is they are actually for? Is it sufficient to specify