Bug#975250: clarify gathering together of copyright information
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 12:02:48PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> The former. If you'd like to propose a patch making this clearer we
> could get it applied.
How about this:
diff --git a/copyright-format-1.0.xml b/copyright-format-1.0.xml
index b8df359..71d7c1c 100644
--- a/copyright-format-1.0.xml
+++ b/copyright-format-1.0.xml
@@ -559,12 +559,21 @@ License: MPL-1.1
<programlisting>Copyright 2008 John Smith
Copyright 2009 Angela Watts</programlisting>
and file B has:
-<programlisting>Copyright 2010 Angela Watts</programlisting>
+<programlisting>Copyright 2005-2015 Angela Watts</programlisting>
a single paragraph may still be used for both files. The
<varname>Copyright</varname> field for that paragraph would
contain:
<programlisting>Copyright 2008 John Smith
-Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts</programlisting>
+Copyright 2005-2015 Angela Watts</programlisting>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is important that all copyright years mentioned in the
+ copyright notice are covered in the coalesced
+ <varname>Copyright</varname> field. It is ok to have years
+ covered that are not listed in the original notices. You are
+ allowed to coalesce copyright statements from multiple files
+ into a single copyright notice as long as all of the listed
+ authors and years are covered.
</para>
<para>
The <varname>Copyright</varname> field may contain the original
Greetings
Marc
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