On 2017-04-11 09:33 +0200, Paride Legovini wrote: > [Note for whoever lands here: the package has been rejected from NEW > because of unattributed files in lua/lexers]. > > Hello Adam, > > I didn't realize that some files in lua/lexers were not fully attributed > in debian/copyright. Regarding those files: there is one main author > (that is attributed), then many single-file contributions from about 40 > different authors. > > Should I list all these authors in debian/copyright, or can I do like > it's done for the Linux kernel: > > Files: * > Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others > License: GPL-2 > > hence writing: > > Files: lua/lexers/* > Copyright: 2007-2016 Mitchell <mitchell@foicica.com> and many others > License: MIT > > What do you suggest? The thing that really matters is the licence. If the whole thing is definitely under the same licence then you can just list it as one stanza with lots of authors. But if there are different licences for the contributed parts then you really need to add stanzas for those. Ideally you put in stanzas for all the logically separate pieces (say several lexers from different conributors, even if they have the same licence). But this level of detail is not required. Even if you put it as one stanza because it's all one licence, it's good practice to include all the authors names (that have indicated their copyright by putting their names on something). Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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