Dear David, On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:37:58AM +0000, David Hart wrote: > >- Various stanzas do not include the copyright years, yet these are > > available in the files. The Copyright: field is meant to contain the > > copyright claim as it was stated by the upstream author.. > > May I ask which tool you used for that? I've found debmake -kk the best I've > tried, but it doesn't check for dates. > > I've gone through by hand and added all that I found. Of course: licensecheck --copyright -r . > >- Files in .build/ remain, and are not given in d/copyright. > > The remaining ones are my own files. Won't they be covered by '*'? Oh, sorry, I assumed you hadn't written 4pane.m4. Not so many people know m4, as I understand it :) > >- Files: bitmaps/iceweasel.png > > Copyright: Uncertain > > > >Files: bitmaps/kedit.xpm > >Copyright: Unknown > > > >Files: bitmaps/kwrite.xpm > >Copyright: Various > > > >The ftp-masters would be very likely to reject these. Since you found > >the source repos, surely you can find a name for the copyright fields? > > I tried hard, but failed to find definite copyright authors for these and > other bitmaps; I therefore added 'Comment:' fields. In detail: I understand, and appreciate that this is quite a frustrating time sink. > [...] > With the possible exception of kedit, all of these icons are or were included in > other debian packages, so it would be surprising if there is no solution short > of removal. In general, what currently acceptable ways are there to fill the > Copyright field when an author isn't specified for a particular element of a > package? What we are hitting up against here is a limitation of the DEP-5 copyright format, which can make it seem like listing all authors is more important than establishing that the work is under a free license. Having read the results of your research, I suggest the following approach: - insert all the authorship info you've managed to find thus far -- no reason to throw away that effort -- in the Copyright: field, not Comment:. In the situation where you have a list of project authors but it is unlikely that they all worked on the icon file, just list them all, and put "Comment: These are the authors for the upstream project from which this file was obtained." - for the files where it is not clear, write a copyright string based on the project name. E.g. for kedit.xpm, "(C) 1999 kde-artist team" If this doesn't sound sane, it might be best to ask debian-legal. But I think we could go ahead and upload and see what the ftp-masters think of my proposed solution. > Finally, my ITP has timed-out and the package removed from > mentors. Does this now matter? We don't need mentors since I am working out of your git repo. Your ITP does not appear to have timed out. If the RFS gets closed, you can just re-open it. -- Sean Whitton
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