debian/copyright

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:24:44PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:19:55PM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:29:04AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> > >I'm working on Ecasound's copyright file. Would like to ask for a
> > >review.
> > >
> > >This project has lots of contributors with different dates in
> > >different files.
> > >
> > >The catchall entry points to the original developer covering all
> > >years listed in the project files.
> > >
> > >Files: *
> > >Copyright: 1997-2010 Kai Vehmanen <kvehmanen at eca.cx>
> > >License: GPL-2+
> > 
> > Was there an implicit question somewhere in the above?
> 
> Not from me. Alessandro, was there something you
> wanted to ask about?

Yes. Currently the debian/copyright for ecasound lists all the different
contributors to the software, but having a look at the licensecheck output
some (one in particular) contributors are listed with different copyright
years ranges (for different files of course), e.g.:

   Copyright: 2002-2010 Kai Vehmanen
   Copyright: 1999-2004,2007 Kai Vehmanen
   Copyright: 1997-2010 Kai Vehmanen

and many others. The question is, do we need to list all this copyright
statements, or we can just use a single catch-all copyright years range for 
this contributor?

Hope this makes sense to you :)

Cheers

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