Re: DEP-5 copyright names on a single line
Le Wed, Jun 04, 2014 at 02:10:08PM +0200, Daniel Pocock a écrit :
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> In the DEP-5 doc
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> http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep5/#copyright-field
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> "Any formatting is permitted"
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> "years of publication for one copyright holder may be gathered together"
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> One thing is not mentioned explicitly: can multiple names be on the same
> line if the years are the same?
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> E.g.
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> https://github.com/arcticwaters/weupnp/commit/0d1f840b5cb646fb06f139462a5cf51a1fb4b97d
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> contains this:
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> Copyright: 2008-2014, Alessandro Bahgat Shehata, Daniele Castagna
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> or is it mandatory to have one line per copyright holder?
Hi Daniel,
the machine-readable format does not forbid to collate everything on one line.
Especially, for the package where you take the example, there are already
upstream files where the two holders are on the same line of a copyright
statement, so there is no problem at all.
Have a nice day,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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