Bug#979653: xfsprogs: Incomplete debian/copyright

[Bastian Germann <bastiangermann@fishpost.de>]

Am 12.01.21 um 18:46 schrieb Darrick J. Wong:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 01:23:58AM +0100, Bastian Germann wrote:
>> Files: *
>> Copyright:
>>   1995-2013 Silicon Graphics, Inc.
>>   2010-2018 Red Hat, Inc.
>>   2016-2020 Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.
> 
> /me notes that a lot of the Oracle-copyright files are actually GPL-2+,
> not GPL-2.  That might not be obvious because I bungled some of the SPDX
> tags when spdx deprecated the "GPL-2.0+" tag and we had to replace them
> all with "GPL-2.0-or-later", though it looks like they've all been
> cleaned up at this point.

Yes, I have noticed that there are some GPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-2.0+ 
licensed files. Simplifying them as GPL-2.0-only in debian/copyright 
does not harm in my opinion as the whole work including the GPL-2.0-only 
files is not usable under GPL-2.0-or-later. And someone who is 
interested in using specific files would look at their individual SPDX 
lines anyway.

> 
> Question: How can we autogenerate debian/copyright from the source files
> in the git repo?  In the long run I think it best that this becomes
> something we can automate when tagging a new upstream release.

I do not know of any SPDX to DEP-5 converter. Implementing a generic 
converter would be beneficial to more projects but is a bigger task. The 
need for it is mentioned at https://wiki.debian.org/SPDX.
Just writing a converter for xfsprogs would be doable easily from what I 
have seen.