Re: DEP-5: Please clarify the meaning of "same licence and share copyright holders"
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 21:11 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 07:56:09PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:48:26AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> > > > That doesn’t hold. Most of my copyright files are much easier to read
> > > > than DEP5-like ones.
> > >
> > > Yes, I agree. My existing pre-DEP5 copyright files are easier for a
> > > human to read than the DEP5 format.
> >
> > This is a matter of opinion, and you and Josselin are free to dislike the DEP5
> > format. This is why it would be a bad idea to make it mandatory at this stage.
> > Some other people, myself included, find it more readable. As long as some group
> > of people are of the same opinion, there is value in standardising it.
> Now compare with
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/webkit/current/copyright
You are lucky, webkit is quite large, but has fairly simple copyright
(most files are copyrighted by just a few people for the same ranges of
years).
Compare this with another project, which is smaller, but where many
contributors have submitted new features:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/m/moin/current/copyright
Regards,
Franklin
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