Re: Some questions about copyrights
OK, Paul has talked about embedded copies which I agree with (leaving
aside the whole jquery thing) in general. Use the already packaged
libraries for that, your life will be better for it!
Turning to copyright files, the preferred format is the old DEP-5
format, found at [1]
The files stanzas, the last match wins. This means you want your general
ones first, then your more specific ones. So almost always Files: * is
first.
That license, assuming you are not using embedded copies, looks like
Unlicense[2] check that it is fully that and if not use a different
short name.
Also ensure you know the difference between the "or later" clauses.
GPL-2+ means something different to GPL-2 and may mean it won't link
to future GPL code.
So you might have:
Files: *
Copyright: Copyright 1980 John Doe <jdoes@example.com>
License: GPL-3+
[gpl3 license stuff goes here]
Files: somedir/*
Copyright: Copyright 1999 John Doe2 <fred@example.com>
License: Unlicense
[unlicense stuff goes here]
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
[2] http://spdx.org/licenses/Unlicense.html
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