Bug#47438: copyright statement needs updating?

[Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <gaia@iki.fi>]

On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 08:23:40AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
>        Only the owner of copyright in a work has the right to prepare, or
>        to authorize someone else to create a new version of that work.
>        Accordingly, you cannot claim copyright to another's work, no
>        matter how much you change it, unless you have the owner's
>        consent. See Circular 14.

This is true.  Conversely, once you change a work with the consent of
the original author, the result is no longer the original work, it is a
derived work and the copyright on that derived work is held jointly by the
original author and the author of the changes.

The point is, Ian does not hold the copyright to the whole of Debian
Policy Manual.  He holds copyright to the original which he wrote and to
those parts of the current version that he has authored.  The copyright
on the current version is jointly held by all people who have made
significant changes to the manual.

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