Bug#792431: cme: do not extract the copyright informations of the autoconf tools

[PICCA Frederic-Emmanuel]

> $ licensecheck -r -m --copyright config
> config/texinfo.tex      GPL (v3 or later)       1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995
> config/ltmain.sh        GPL (v2 or later)       1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Yes this is the problem, a very difficult one since everyone can modify these snipsets...

> In these files, the © statement is declared on 2 or 3 lines

> I've already tweaked licensecheck to cope with © statement declared on 2 lines:
> $ perl ~/debian-dev/devscripts/scripts/licensecheck.pl -r -m --copyright config
> config/texinfo.tex      GPL (v3 or later)       1985, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006,
> config/ltmain.sh        GPL (v2 or later)       1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

> I guess I can tweak it more to cope with texinfo.tex...

> In the meantime, you can add instructions in debian/fix.scanned.copyright to add the
> missing information with something like:
> ! Files:"config/texinfo.tex"  Copyright.="-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
> ! Files:"config/ltmain.sh"  Copyright.="-2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."

Do you know if there is an initiaive in prderto have machine readable copyright information sin sources files ?

Once converted it would be possible to generate the copyright file by collecting all these informations ?

thanks for the informations.

is there a man page with the documentation for this fix.scanned.copyright fiel format

Thanks