csound manual

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:16:07AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 20:21, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 06:14:22PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:12, Felipe Sateler <fsateler at gmail.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:00, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> 
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Please see http://www.csounds.com/manual/html/PrefaceHistory.html 
>>>> for a short summary of the csound manual.
>>>
>>> And BTW, there is code in debian/rules that parses that page to 
>>> generate a non exhaustive list of contributors. It is currently 
>>> commented out, though. It is in common-post-build-indep.
>>
>> I lost you here.  What is it you are trying to say?
>>
>> You insist that it is ok to cover most authors as "and others" 
>> instead of listing their names explicitly in debian/copyright, yet 
>> you ask me to go investigate the details. Why?
>
>Sorry for being confusing. I have to admit I was very unclear.
>
>The page lists the complicated history of the manual. The important 
>part is that the licensing was some non commercial license, and MIT 
>held the rights to change that (Barry Vercoe et al were working at MIT 
>while developing csound and the manual). Finally the licensing was 
>changed to GFDL, and the manual moved to a sourceforge CVS repository, 
>where the current development is still done. There is no way we can 
>track who did what change to which file, but the best we can do is 
>expand the "Andres Cabrera and others" to a list of 35 names and still 
>have the "and others".

I think at least we should document the situation in debian/copyright, 
then.  Not needed to include all history, only status quo is relevant 
(if possible without laying it all out). And not all contributors are 
relevant, only those claiming copyright.


>And BTW, the code is broken :p.

How so?  Something I did?


  - Jonas

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