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