The Debianization of riot-web should have a copyright file.

Dear Friends,

Recently I wrote an article about riot see https://itsfoss.com/riot-desktop/ and https://itsfoss.com/riot-desktop/#comments

While I was away a colleague shared the licenses under which it is done. In the Debian world, all packages have to have a copyright file as a matter of policy so the terms and conditions are clearly stated under.

See https://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

Just to share as an example, here's one from a simple GUI-based text-editor I use sometimes -

/usr/share/doc/leafpad$ cat copyright 
Format: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0
Upstream-Name: leafpad
Upstream-Contact: Tarot Osuji <tarot@freeshell.org>, <tarot@sdf.lonestar.org>
Source: http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/
X-Upstream-Bugs: <tarot@sdf.lonestar.org>
Comment:
  See also
  http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/leafpad
  https://launchpad.net/~tarot

Files: *
Copyright:
  2004-2010 Tarot Osujia <tarot@freeshell.org>
License: GPL-2+

Files: src/gtksourceiter.c src/gtksourceiter.h
Copyright:
  2000-2002 Paolo Maggi <paolo@gnome.org>
  2002-2003 Jeroen Zwartepoorte <jeroen|@|xs4all.nl>
License: LGPL-2+

Files: po/*
Copyright: 
  2004-2009 Lucas Vieites <lucas@codexion.com>
  2004      Alan Kelon Oliveira de Moraes <alankelon@yahoo.com.br>
  2004      Artem Vakhitov <temcat@mail.ru>
  2004      Carlos Z.F. Liu <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
  2004      David Rosal <davidrr@users.sourceforge.net>
  2004      Isak Savo <iso01001@student.mdh.se>
  2004      Lech Jankovski <godgard@gmail.com>
  2004      Petr Vysloužil <evyslouz@volny.cz>
  2004      Tarot Osuji <tarot@sdf.lonestar.org>
  2004      Vijay Durairaj <vjd81@yahoo.com>
  2005-2006 Stavros Giannouris <stavrosg2002@freemail.gr>
  2005-2006 Yavor Doganov <yavor@doganov.org>
  2005      Alessio D'Ascanio <g3ntaro@gmail.com>
  2005      kaya oğuz <kaya@kuzeykutbu.org>
  2005      Michal Wrobel <wrobel@task.gda.pl>
  2005      OLS3 <ols3@lxer.idv.tw>
  2005      Petr Chabada <leafpad_chabada_sk>
  2005      Yo'av Moshe <black_jesus@myrealbox.com>
  2006-2008 Kevin Patrick Scannell <scannell@SLU.EDU>
  2006      Seo Sanghyeon <sanxiyn@gmail.com>
  2006      Wouter Van Hemel <wouter-oss@publica.duodecim.org>
  2007-2009 Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>
  2007      Reviczky Ádám János <reviczky@freemail.hu>
  2007      Youri Bulka <jblk@icmail.net>
  2008      Benno Schulenberg <benno@vertaalt.nl>
  2008      Gintautas Miliauskas <gintas@akl.lt>
  2008      Inko Illarramendi Arancibia <inkoia@gmail.com>
  2008      Joe Hansen <joedalton2@yahoo.dk>
  2008      Leslie Harlley Watter <leslie@watter.org>
  2008      LI Daobing <lidaobing@gmail.com>
  2008      Marc Veillet <scouigne@gmail.com>
  2008      Mikel Olasagasti <hey_neken@mundurat.net>
  2008      Vincenzo Campanella <vinz65@gmail.com>
  2008      Wei-Lun Chao <chaoweilun@gmail.com>
  2009      Alan Pepelko <alan.pepelko@gmail.com>
  2009      Andhika Padmawan <andhika.padmawan@gmail.com>
  2009      Arvis Lācis <arvis.lacis@inbox.lv>
  2009      Denis ARNAUD <denisarnuad@yahoo.fr>
  2009      Jay Alexander Fleming <tito.nehru.naser@gmail.com>
  2009      Mario Blättermann <mario.blaettermann@t-online.de>
  2009      Michał Trzebiatowski <hippie_1968@hotmail.com>
  2009      Rihards Priedītis <rprieditis@gmail.com>
  2010      Jorma Karvonen <karvonen.jorma@gmail.com>
  2010      Kalman Kemenczy <kkemenczy@gmail.com>
  2010      Leandro Regueiro <leandro.regueiro@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2+

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
  2004-2006 Carlos Z.F. Liu <carlosliu@users.sourceforge.net>, <carlos_liu@yahoo.com>
  2004      Ming Hua <minghua@rice.edu>
  2005      Ondřej Surý <ondrej@sury.org>
  2005      Carlos Z.F. Liu
  2007      Sven Arvidsson
  2007-2009 Julien Lavergne <julien.lavergne@gmail.com>
  2007-2009 Loic Minier
  2009      Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
  2009-2013 Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>
  2016      Paulo Roberto Alves de Oliveira (aka kretcheu) <kretcheu@gmail.com>
License: GPL-2+

License: GPL-2+
 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 GNU General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
 Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2".

License: LGPL-2+
 This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 .
 This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 Library General Public License for more details.
 .
 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 along with this program; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 .
 On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU Library General
 Public License can be found in "/usr/share/common-licenses/LGPL-2".

If a text-editor can take so much care, then an important project like riot-web should do the needful. It does two nice things for the project. It credits the efforts of past contributors and makes it useful in a court of law in case somebody tries to do something funny with it.

element-hq / element-desktop

The Debianization of riot-web should have a copyright file. #662