Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file
On 24-Sep-07, 04:30 (CDT), Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> wrote:
> On 2007-09-24 18:21 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> writes:
> >
> > > On 2007-09-23 17:22 -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
> > > > The package should include in the copyright file the correct email
> > > > address for whatever contact information the upstream author(s)
> > > > use to receive queries from users and other people.
> > >
> > > This email address will be used by humans. Why does it have to be
> > > machine readable ?
> >
> > So that the information can be presented *to* humans *by* machines.
>
> How do you determine that being able to do that is more important
> than concerns over disseminating other people's email addresses
> without their permission ?
These would be the same people who are distributing the code,
right? And who put their preferred public e-mail address in the
associated documentation? If you don't want a particular e-mail address
distributed, then don't distribute it.
Steve
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Steve Greenland
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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