Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:13:57PM +1000, Craig Small wrote:
>> We should say explicitly that the copyright field is a rollup of all
>> relevant copyright declarations for that group of files, yes.
> Russ, can you suggest some language around this? "rollup" just conjures
> images of children's fruit snacks for me. :)
How about this (written without looking at the detailed wording of the
document, so may need some massaging to fit into the flow):
The Copyright field collects all relevant copyright notices for the
files of this stanza. Not all copyright notices may apply to every
individual file, and years of publication for one copyright holder may
be gathered together. For example, if file A has:
Copyright 2008 John Smith
Copyright 2009 Angela Watts
and file B has:
Copyright 2010 Angela Watts
the Copyright field for a stanza covering both file A and file B need
contain only:
Copyright 2008 John Smith
Copyright 2009, 2010 Angela Watts
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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