Re: DEP-5: general file syntax
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> While wording this, I realized that we have more cases: Files has a list
> of values (currently comma-separated, but I propose to make it
> white-space separated), and Copyright and maybe other fields have a list
> of values one per line. I took the liberty of taking this into account.
This generally looks good to me, but:
> Another kind of list value has one value per line. For example,
> `Copyright` can list many copyright statements, one per line.
What happens when the copyright statement is longer than a line? I have a
bunch of those, such as:
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Board of Trustees, Leland Stanford Jr. University
Copyright 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003 by The Internet Software Consortium and Rich Salz
Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Note that the FSF lawyer told them not to use ranges in copyright dates,
so most GNU projects don't. From standards:
Do not abbreviate the year list using a range; for instance, do not
write `1996--1998'; instead, write `1996, 1997, 1998'.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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