Help for openmeca copyright
Hello all,
With the help of Andreas Tille (thanks to him), I packaged a first
version of openmeca software.
Unfortunately the package was rejected by the ftp team because the
copyright file does not respect the debian policy.
In fact, the openmeca package embeds third party libraries and I just
mention "the xxxx team" (where xxxx is the name of the related library)
in the copyright file. The problem is that the copyright file must
mention all the author names.
These libraries represent more than two thousand files with many
authors... and collecting manually all the author names
represents a very very very long and fastidious task !
Andreas Tille advise me to remove all the third party libraries. I can
remove some of these libraries excepted :
1- The boost C++ library. For technical reason, I prefer to keep a
frozen version of the boost library inside the openmeca package.
Because the boost library is used by openmeca to make input/output
files (*.omc). If different versions of boost are used
the interoperability of the *.omc is broken and openmeca users can't
share their files.
2- The chronoengine C++ library because it is not packaged by debian.
If this is the only way, I will parse all files manually to collect
author names but I prefer a less fastidious solution :)
If you have an idea, your help will be really appreciated !
Thanks, Best regards, Damien.
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