Bug#975250: clarify gathering together of copyright information
Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> writes:
> Personally I see a big distinction between someone doing it for their
> own copyright claims, and doing that for someone else's.
Yeah, this is where I'm at too. It feels weird, and I'm not sure it's
technically compliant with the license requirement to preserve the
copyright notice for those licenses that have it.
That said, I tend to be hyper-conservative and nit-picky about things like
this, accurately representing copyright years isn't in my top thousand
things I want people to work on in Debian, and I'm highly dubious that it
will ever matter or anyone will ever care. So I'm very open to being told
I'm being much too cautious.
> AFAIUI when and what you have done before publication does not count
> when it comes to copyright, only the publication date does.
Yes, this is also my understanding, with the caveat that I only have read
the US law in any detail and I don't know to what extent it varies. (I
know Berne mostly standardizes copyright, but mostly isn't entirely and
there are countries with fairly significant differences, such as moral
rights. I have no idea how universal the exact semantics of copyright
notices are under Berne.)
Here's the circular from the US Copyright Office on notices, for whatever
it's worth:
https://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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