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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