Re: copyright years in the copyright file
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- Subject: Re: copyright years in the copyright file
- From: Osamu Aoki <osamu_aoki_home@nifty.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 00:10:24 +0900
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Hi,
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:51:48AM +1000, Riley Baird wrote:
> > The upstream of the getmail writes this as his original code without
> > making copyright assignment to FSF. He is the licensor and not the
> > licensee. Thus, he is not bound by the quoted GPL2 license terms at
> > all.
>
> Agreed.
>
> > This is exactly the reason why I as the licensee must not change the
> > upstream provided "copyright notice".
>
> Ah, okay. Could you at least change the debian copyright file? You're
> not changing the notice there; you're making a new one.
No. Please read the Debian Policy: 12.5 Copyright information
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
| Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright
| information and distribution license in the file
| /usr/share/doc/package/copyright.
If you make a *change*, then it is not a *verbatim* copy any more.
What I can make is to add a comment documenting the situation. This can
be requested as wishlist feature request bug. I do not see the value of
such action and I will mark such request as wontfix.
Please seriously think about the VALUE.
Regards,
Osamu
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