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Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"



On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:39:04AM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 13:53 +0100, Noah Slater wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:06:39AM +0200, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > > If I understand the sentence in question correctly then the proposal
> > > really requires me to create all three stanzas... that's insane!
> > 
> > Why is it insane?
> 
> I have a project with over 4,000 source files.
> It is 15 years old, so some of those files have 4 or 5 copyright notices
> in them from contributors over the years.

This is probably one of the reasons why the per-file Copyright field is
listed as option in the DEP.

-- 
James
GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan@debian.org>

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