Re: Newbie Help - Ruby on Rails packaging questions.

[Richard Hurt <rnhurt@kangaroobox.com>]

After spending a bit of time with "licensecheck" and a some command  
line friends I now have a debian/copyright file that conforms to the  
proposed CopyrightFormat.  The problem is that weighing in @ 388  
lines, it is huge!  It turns out that while most of the files in  
redmine are GPL they have a bunch of different Copyright notices,  
usually just differing by year.

Should I just combine the similar (same person) copyrights into a  
single one covering all the years or am I supposed to list each one  
separately?  Also, there are quite a few files that have no copyright  
or license info at all.  Things like db/migrate scripts, sample code,  
and examples.  Since they are not explicably licensed/copyrighted does  
that mean that they fall under the project license/copyright?

Thanx!
  Richard

On Jul 21, 2008, at 9:37 AM| Jul 21, 2008, Jan Beyer wrote:

> On 07/21/2008 03:20 PM, Richard Hurt wrote :
> > OK, I am attempting to package up redmine and need some general
> > pointers.  I'm going through the New Maintainers Guide tutorial and  
> > have
> > run into a few things that I need clarification on.
> >
> > 1) Is there any type of automated way to extract license info from a
> > series of files?  I am using a simple grep to do my heavy lifting  
> > but it
> > seems pretty crude; has no one built anything better?
> >
> > 2) redmine itself is under GPL-2 but there are some files in the  
> > archive
> > under various other license (MIT, LGPL, Ruby) and some files have no
> > license at all.  How do I represent this information in the
> > debian/copyright file?  Listing each file and it's license  
> > individually
> > would be overwhelming.  What is the best practice here?
> You'll have to have all this information in the copyright file. If  
> you like,
> have a look at http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat on  
> how you
> could format this information. Usually, there are only finitely many
> different combinations of copyright/license, to which you can list the
> corresponding files, possibly using wildcards like *,? ...
>
> Good luck! ;-)
> Jan
>
>
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