[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)

[Raphael Hertzog]

Hi,

On Wed, 04 Jun 2014, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> > The Perl script (attached) took a few hours to write - there's a brick
> > of about 60 lines to munge file moves.  Then about another hour to
> > inspect all that output, plus poking at each file to make sure that the
> > license change actually occured.
> 
> Thank you a lot, this really helps. I'll integrate your changes over 
> the next few days after some further local testing.

I'm glad that this got sorted out but I wanted to point out that
you are actually too demanding of yourself in terms of what to put in
debian/copyright.

You don't have to document the copyright holders of each and every file.
What truly matters is to properly distinguish the different licenses and
the files concerned by each license.

Listing of copyright holders doesn't have to be exhaustive (it's
impossible for big projects) and it's perfectly acceptable to group them
for a set of files that share a common license. See how the linux
packages uses:

Files: *
Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others
License: GPL-2

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer

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