Re: Debian copyright file and contributors
Thanks lumin,
I did a check:
> Licensecheck attempts to determine the license that applies to each
file passed to it, by searching the start of the file for text
belonging to various licenses.
I guess in such case, >90% of the contributors will be missed.
By "contributors" I meant the people committed in code for
enhancements/bug-fixes etc. I didn't try, but I think it won't work
for the "contributors" case in my question, as I think > 90% of them
will not put their names to the top of the file, despite how much
improvement they made.
The output in my OP was automatically generated from git log with a
single command without installing any extra packages [1]. It won't
miss any one. So if it even barely acceptable, I'm going to stick to
it.
Thanks
[1] https://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/4519/list-all-authors-of-a-particular-git-project
On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 2:39 AM Mo Zhou - lumin@debian.org
<pkgoyq.xpt.05ee5440cd.lumin#debian.org@ob.0sg.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> The simplest way is to modify automatically generated copyright file:
>
> $ licensecheck -r --deb-machine . >> debian/copyright
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 06:04:03PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > What is the simplest way to put all contributors into the Debian copyright file?
> >
> > I know the hardest way is associate each with their corresponding
> > change files, but for popular projects, the Debian copyright file
> > would be unnecessarily HUGE.
> >
> > Would this be acceptable? Especially for those that contribute scarcely?
> >
> > Files: *
> > Copyright:
> > Alexandre Viau <alexandre@alexandreviau.net>, Copyright 2015
> > Alexandre Viau <alexandre@alexandreviau.net>, Copyright 2018
> > Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>, Copyright 2015
> > Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>, Copyright 2016
> > Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>, Copyright 2018
> > ...
> > zhsj <zsj950618@gmail.com>, Copyright 2017
> > zhsj <zsj950618@gmail.com>, Copyright 2019
> >
> > Detailed example appreciated. thx.
>
>
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