Re: Debian copyright file and contributors
On Friday, 19 April 2019 00:04:03 CEST Tong Sun wrote:
> What is the simplest way to put all contributors into the Debian copyright
> file?
Please don't. Contributors are not necessarily copyright owners.
Debian policy [1] requires:
> Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
information, unless its distribution license explicitly permits this
information to be excluded from distributions of binaries built from the
source.
Which means that debian/copyright file must contain copyright information that
are explicit in upstream project. It can be a "global" COPYING or LICENSE file
or explicit copyright statement in source files.
HTH
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#copyright-considerations
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