Re: DEP-5: clarify batching of copyrights, licenses in a single stanza
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:04:12AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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
I think that clarifies it pretty well, thanks.
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