r57478 - in /trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian: changelog copyright
chrisb at users.alioth.debian.org
chrisb at users.alioth.debian.org
Tue May 4 23:38:14 UTC 2010
Author: chrisb
Date: Tue May 4 23:38:07 2010
New Revision: 57478
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/?sc=1&rev=57478
Log:
Added clarifcation of upstream copyright to debian/copyright.
Modified:
trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/changelog
trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/copyright
Modified: trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/changelog?rev=57478&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/changelog (original)
+++ trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/changelog Tue May 4 23:38:07 2010
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
liblingua-en-tagger-perl (0.15-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* Initial Release.
+ * Added clarifcation of upstream copyright to debian/copyright.
-- Chris Butler <chrisb at debian.org> Tue, 4 May 2010 20:00:50 +0100
Modified: trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/copyright
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-perl/trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/copyright?rev=57478&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/copyright (original)
+++ trunk/liblingua-en-tagger-perl/debian/copyright Tue May 4 23:38:07 2010
@@ -21,3 +21,62 @@
.
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'
+
+
+
+The current upstream tarball does not contain the copyright statements from
+the author. This was reported upstream as CPAN bug:
+
+ https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=57207
+
+I've received the following response from upstream:
+
+===============================================================================
+Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 15:58:41 -0400
+From: Aaron Coburn <acoburn at amherst.edu>
+To: chrisb at debian.org
+Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #57207] Missing copyright information
+X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1078)
+
+Hi, Chris,
+your list of copyright years is correct. I'll make the appropriate changes for
+the next release.
+
+Best wishes,
+Aaron Coburn
+
+
+On May 4, 2010, at 3:18 PM, Chris Butler via RT wrote:
+
+> Tue May 04 15:18:00 2010: Request 57207 was acted upon.
+> Transaction: Ticket created by crispygoth
+> Queue: Lingua-EN-Tagger
+> Subject: Missing copyright information
+> Broken in: 0.15
+> Severity: Normal
+> Owner: Nobody
+> Requestors: chrisb at debian.org
+> Status: new
+> Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57207 >
+>
+>
+> The current version of Lingua::EN::Tagger doesn't actually contain an
+> explicit statement of the copyright holders with years. I would like to
+> put together a package of your module for Debian, however we need to be
+> able to include a copyright statement in our packaging.
+>
+> I can see you've included a list of contributors in the POD, and the
+> license description, but no statement of copyright. From the Changes
+> file I can imply the following:
+>
+> Copyright 2003-2008 Aaron Coburn <aaron at coburncuadrado.com>
+> 2003 Maciej Ceglowski <developer at ceglowski.com>
+> 2004 Eric Nichols <eric-n at is.naist.jp>
+>
+> It would be nice if this (or something similar) could be included in the
+> COPYRIGHT section of the POD in a future release. We wouldn't really
+> need a new release just for this, just a message from you confirming the
+> copyright would be enough for now. We can include a copy of the message
+> in the packaging for this release, then get rid of it if a newer version
+> includes the copyright in the source.
+===============================================================================
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