On Monday, April 30 2018, Fabian Wolff wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 12:24:42PM +0200, Steve Langasek wrote:
>> I don't think you should be taking it upon yourself to add copyright
>> statements regarding debian/ contents where authors have not asserted their
>> copyright up front. There is precious little in debian/, outside of
>> debian/patches/, which should generally be considered copyrightable in a
>> well-done package.
>
> I see. Then how about updating debian/copyright simply like so:
>
> """
> diff --git a/debian/copyright b/debian/copyright
> index f72a2e5..9e71f1f 100644
> --- a/debian/copyright
> +++ b/debian/copyright
> @@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ Copyright: 2003-2004 Daniel Sleator
> 2007 Mike Ross
> 2008 Filip Maric
> 2008-2010 Borislav Iordanov
> [-2008-2016-]{+2008-2018+} Linas Vepstas
> [-2014-2016-]{+2014-2018+} Amir Plivatsky
> License: LGPL-2.1
>
> Files: bindings/java/org/linkgrammar/JSONReader.java
> """
>
> This seems to match the activity in the upstream repository:
>
> https://github.com/opencog/link-grammar/graphs/contributors
Thank to everybody who replied. Really appreciated.
Fabian, I think it's OK if you just update the upstream project's
copyright info, so I agree with the proposed modification you suggested
above.
Please let me know when you push it, and I'll upload the package.
Thanks,
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