Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

[Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au>]

Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> writes:

> How do you determine that being able to [parse email addresses in
> package metadata] is more important than concerns over disseminating
> other people's email addresses without their permission ?

They're distributing a work, with their chosen contact email address
specific to that work, with permission for anyone to redistribute that
work to anyone. It beggars logic to assume that permission is further
needed to redistribute that very email address along with the work.

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