Re: Fixing old-fsf-address-in-copyright-file
Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> writes:
> In practice, that means:
>
> * explicit, unambiguous statements of which parties hold copyright in
> the work (this is so that interested parties can at least attempt to
> verify if our claim meets the copyright holder's understanding of
> the granted license), and when that copyright begins (this is so
> that the reader can know when the work will no longer be restricted
> by copyright, on the theory that copyrights expire). In other words,
> full UCC-style copyright statements including full years and legal
> entity names.
What if there is no such notice in the upstream source? It's not required
by any legal jurisdiction that matters to Debian so far as I know, so it's
not unreasonable for upstream to not bother.
> * explicit, unambiguous text from the copyright holder granting
> license, and the specific extent of that license within the work as
> distributed in Debian (i.e. what files are covered by the grant).
>
> * the exact license terms granted by the copyright holder in the
> covered part of the work, or a reference to those terms in
> /usr/share/common-licenses/.
I agree with those.
Reading between the lines, it sounds like you don't think that the FSF
address needs to be in the copyright file either, correct?
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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