csound manual

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:44:31PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:34:05PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>>On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:00, Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk> 
>>wrote:
>>>On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:16:07AM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
>
>>>>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)
>>
>>How to do that in the dep5 format?

[Whoops, I forgot to comment on the above...]

DEP-5 mandates some sections and the naming of those mandated sections.  
Trick is, it permits other fields too, and does not even (in most recent 
drafts) limit those to e.g. X-* names.  The idea is, I believe (and I 
think it is even mentioned in the specification - too lazy to check 
right now) is perhaps some unofficial add-on sections becomes common 
practice and can then easily (i.e. without need of updating existing 
files using it) be adopted in a later release of the specs.

See e.g. the moin package for how I currently do unofficial tags similar 
to what might be done here.


  - Jonas

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