On Tue, Jul 05, 2016 at 12:02:53PM +0000, Sean Whitton wrote:
[snip]
> 8. This doesn't make sense (doesn't follow DEP-5 machine-readable
> copyright file format) -- please check:
>
> Files: sct.c
> Copyright: 2016 Ted Unangst <tedu@openbsd.org>
> whitepoints data copyright 2013 Ingo Thies <ithies@astro.uni-bonn.de>
> License: public-domain-sct and public-domain-colorramp
Actually I don't see a problem with the machine-readable copyright
specification here; if you're referring to the fact that the contents
of the "Copyright" field is not in the usual "list of <year> <author>"
format, this is perfectly fine: the Copyright field is free-form text as
described in:
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/#copyright-field
It is true that the examples in the copyright-format specification also
follow the "list of <year> <author>" format, but it is not codified in
the text. I'm actually glad for that, and I'm actually glad that
Dominique Dumont's libconfig-model-dpkg-perl package (usually used as
"cme check dpkg") treats the Copyright field as such, because in one of
the packages that I'm working on right now I have to include something
like that:
Files: lib/*
Copyright:
...
(c) 1998, 2001 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
This code is derived from software contributed to The NetBSD Foundation
by Charles M. Hannum.
...
License: BSD-2-clause
...and there is no way to express that (and not lose information) without
falling back on the free-form text idea.
Of course, my interpretation might be wrong, in which case I would be
glad for any advice on expressing the "derived from..." statement in
a stricter format.
G'luck,
Peter
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