[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#1089621: xen: Invalid copyright years "2022-present"

Sean Whitton spwhitton at spwhitton.name
Tue Dec 10 02:51:34 GMT 2024


Source: xen
Version: 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3, 4.5, 12.5
X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at debian.org

Dear maintainer,

    Copyright 2022-present Keir Fraser and/or many others"

is not a valid copyright claim.  Copyright is always time-limited, so it
simply does not make sense to say "-present".

Also, our copyright format is already implicitly "and/or" for names
under a given stanza, so it should be just "and", I think.

If you're reproducing this from the upstream sources because that's
what they typed and the GPL requires you to reproduce copyright claims,
then please take this up with them.

If this is something that someone came up with for Debian purposes,
please use

    Copyright: 2002-2024  Keir Fraser and many others

Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton



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