On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:07:43 -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > > debian/copyright > > > ---------------- > > > * The group is no legal entity and therefore cannot be the copyright > > > holder. > > > * "The superset of the module license and the Perl license" seems > > > like a good default licensing for debian/*. > > > * Create a boilerplate that refers to changelog for the contributors. > > That needs to be created. Maybe someone who speaks en_LEGAL can > > propose a nice wording for "Files: debian/*\nCopyright: $foo\n > > License: $bar"? > In dh-make-perl, line 1183 (SVN rev 25035): [..] > As we agreed beforehand ;-) Right, my comment about what's still missing is the third bullet point :) (I.e. the reference to all contributors from d/changelog; not an issue for new packages, where $maintainer is just fine, but in case of recreation) > > > * We change dh-make-perl to output the new format. > > Gunnar has started to work on automatically creating a > > debian/copyright file in dh-make-perl. I think it still needs a bit > > more polishing; and I've included the copyright-creation in the > > --refresh option, together with backup files. > > So dh-make-perl is a bit "under construction" at the moment :) > Well, IMHO it works nicely as it is now. I've made a small change a few days ago, because until now the copyright file was a bit incomplete if no upstream copyright was detected. Now it outputs an empty skeleton for upstream and a stanza about debian/*. Improvements welcome! And we might sill want to discuss if my changes about copyright recreation on refresh and making .bak files are really wanted. > Of course, heuristics can be > added to detect other licenses (and proper blurbs should be written, > of course). See lines 1081-1130. We currently output valid copyright > files AFAICT; the supported/detected licenses are GPL (any/2/2+/3/3+), > Artistic and 'unparsable'. I didn't add BSDesque licenses on purpose, > as they are not usually template licenses (i.e. they have to be > modified with your/your program's name)... but it is surely doable. I think that's fine the way it is. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. http://info.comodo.priv.at/ | gpg key ID: 0x00F3CFE4 : :' : debian gnu/linux user, admin & developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' member of https://www.vibe.at/ | how to reply: http://got.to/quote/ `- NP: Mink De Ville: Spanish Stroll
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