[DEP5] Format of Copyright header

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

I noticed in reviewing another patch that the Copyright header is a
line-based list.  One unfortunate implication of that is that this means
lines are required to be longer than 80 columns if the name of the
copyright holder is long.  For example:

Copyright: 2004, 2009, 2011 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Previously in DEP-5-converted files, I've been writing that the same way
that I usually write it elsewhere, namely:

Copyright: 2004, 2009, 2011
 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University 

but formally that's two separate lines, one that doesn't have a copyright
holder and one that doesn't have a date.

Is having the copyright information have internal structure actually
buying us anything?  One fix would be to just say that it's freeform text
and leave it up to the user how they want to visually represent the
distinction between multiple copyright holders.

Another option would be to specify some sort of continuation line (perhaps
if the line doesn't start with a number).  But that assumes even more
about the internal structure.

And yes, that's the official name that is supposed to be used in
copyright notices for software owned by Stanford because it's the official
legal name under which the university holds property.  See:

    http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/inventors_copyright.html

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>