On 10606 March 1977, Charles Plessy wrote: > I am packaging a program for debian, and wrote a manpage and two patches > for making it compile with libwxwindows. I am not very interested in > being the author list: I would be a bit ashamed that my name would > appear more frequently that the author's for a work which is not mine. > Also, I feel a bit lazy and do not want the burden of changing the > copyright file whenever one of my modifications is accepted or > obsoleted. > Is it OK if I release the patches and the manpages in the public domain, > and I do not mention the manpage and the patches in the copyright file? Hrm. Of course not every author of a single patch with a few lines, or a manpage or so is needed to be put into the copyright file. That is more for packages where Upstream randomly copied files from other peoples packages into, or sometimes whole subdirectories containing other works... -- bye Joerg Some AM to his NM on [11 Aug. 2004]: You already won't get through Front Desk and Account Manager approvals before sarge,[...] [Note: He made it! :) ]
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