Bug#316487: debian-installer-manual: Missing copyright credit: Karsten M. Self for section C.4

[Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com>]

Joey, please hear me out.  Debian needs to fix this, and your response
to Karsten isn't sufficient or appropriate.

First, Karsten has a reasonable moral claim on Debian for an author
acknowledgement:  Compare his Debian Chroot Install notes, which _were_
the first generally available clear explanation of that matter on the
Web, and you will see for yourself:  A lot of the wording is taken
_absolutely verbatim_ from Karsten's page -- and, as Karsten points out,
Chris Tillman is on record as acknowledging the debt.

Second, if you insist on correcting the problem the other way (by making
the manual no longer be a derivative work of Karsten's pioneering page),
then it is NOT appropriate to make corrective action conditional on
Karsten "producing a list of specific phrases in the manual" for you to
rewrite.  

That's not his job.  He's pointed out that Debian is wrongfully using
his creation in violation of its licence:  It's Debian's job to do
everything else necessary to fix the problem.

I urge you to take the other type of corrective action:  Do the right
thing, and credit Karsten as author of a document on which the manual is
based, as he requested.  If for whatever reason you can't see the logic
of that, however, you _cannot_ throw back onto Karsten the task of
listing for you all the bits of wording that were borrowed.  It's not
right, and very obviously not his problem.

I'm disappointed -- as an author and as a Debian user.  This is no way
to treat a generous volunteer.

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