RE: somewhat urgent
Debian maintains data on the upstream package source maintainer, as
well as the individual Debian maintainer who keeps our package up-to-date.
The role of individual developers on these projects (e.g., how many lines
are "owned" by a particular programmer, etc.) are not maintained by
Debian. Each project has its own policy.
Furthermore, each Debian package includes its own license information.
Often these are links to the generic licenses (GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc),
but sometimes other licenses apply.
-----Original Message-----
From: abs1nthe [mailto:abs1nthe@abs1nthe.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 11:16 AM
To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: somewhat urgent
I'm writing a rather long essay about open source and free software.
it's a legal article. i wanted to know about the copyright issue for
debian distributions. i know you include a copyright notice for each
distribution, but do you also include a list of who made what contributions?
i am under the impression that you do not. if you do not, do you maintain
a list of who did what to the code?
i am also interested in the issue of copyright infringement. if you find
a case of infringement does debian as an organization go after the
infringer or does the author of the code infringed go after the infringer?
thank you for your time. i wrote "somewhat urgent" because i was hoping
to get the information today. again, thank you.
abs1nthe@abs1nthe.com <mailto:abs1nthe@abs1nthe.com>
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