A lot of appreciating all for your kind suggestions! On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 09:15:32AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > The “Machine-readable debian/copyright file” specification allows > free-form text in the “Copyright” field. > > With that said, in my opinion you should strongly prefer the canonical > form for each copyright statement: > > Copyright © MMMM–NNNN ENTITYNAME <CONTACTEMAIL> > > with “MMMM–NNNN” being the range of years the work was published; > “ENTITYNAME” the legal name for the entity that holds copyright in the > work; “CONTACTEMAIL” the contact email address, if known, for that > entity. > > Various accommodations need to be made for different circumstances (e.g. > often a work has copyright held by a number of legal entities, so > “ENTITYNAME and others” might be appropriate). The specification permits free-form text, and there is the strongly preferred canonical format; I copied. Thank you! Now I have one more question: In case of git repository, it is possible to extract all the author's information by tracking the commit history. If the upstream is git repository which has a lot of contributors, and there is only one person in upstream's copyright file, should I use that information? Or can I extract all author's information by myself and add them in d/copyright? > > > - Is there a d/copyright guideline to read? > > Yes, install the ‘debian-copyright’ package and you will have the > current specification installed. It is a document in plain text and HTML, > ‘/usr/share/doc/debian-policy/copyright-format-1.0’. I couldn't find the package 'debian-copyright', but I found a document by following the location. Thank you! On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:40:01AM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 August 2018 00:23:08 CEST Jongmin Kim wrote: > > I'm new to packaging, and I am currently trying to write 'd/copyright' > > file. I am watching some other repositories for studying the > > conventions. > > Note that the copyright file can be generated from sources: > > https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools > > As the author of cme, I would recommend using 'cme update dpkg-copyright' > and then to review the generated file. > > See https://github.com/dod38fr/config-model/wiki/Updating-debian-copyright-file-with-cme > > You can also check the file with: cme edit dpkg-copyright. > > These tools require cme packages with its recommended dependencies. > > Hope this helps I will try using cme for generating the d/copyright file. Thank you for your tool suggestion! -- Jongmin Kim OpenPGP key located at https://jmkim-pgp.github.io/keys/pubkey.D39D8D29BAF36DF8.Jongmin_Kim.asc OpenPGP fingerprint: 012E 4A06 79E1 4EFC DAAE 9472 D39D 8D29 BAF3 6DF8
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