On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 07:01:05AM +0000, Jeff Licquia wrote: > severity 451647 serious > thanks > > Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > >Today I've filed a bugreport http://bugs.debian.org/451647 against > >wacom-tools package. Its copyright file imho violates the policy (I > >think I can cite it here since it is quite "concise") > >,--- > >| This package was created by Ron Lee <ron@debian.org> on > >| Thu, 4 Nov 2004 16:06:55 -0800. > >| > >| Parts of it were downloaded from http://linuxwacom.sf.net > >| > >| Copyright: GPL > >| > >| Some files in the linuxwacom distribution are now covered by the LGPL, > >| the individual files are marked accordingly. > >| > >| A copy of the GPL and LGPL can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses > >| on Debian systems. > >`--- > This is rude at the very least; by implication, the only person worth > mentioning who's contributed anything to this package is Ron Lee. If > what I hear about "moral rights" outside the USA is true, it may even > rise to the level of illegality to incorrectly infer such a prominent > status for oneself and such a minor place for others. You are mixing things that aren't on the same level. The _packaging_ has been created by Ron Lee indeed, meaning that what is under debian/ is his. Nowhere it claims he wrote any of the package upstream. If you believe you read something like that, read again. And again, because you're wrong. OTOH this debian/copyright is clearly deficient in many ways, but stop accusing him of bad faith, you're just out of your mind. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org
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