Re: modified email address in debian/copyright file

[paddy@panici.net]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:02:23PM +0000, paddy@panici.net wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 01:17:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Much as I agree that it would be better if such authors would write
> these addresses properly, surely it is a simple matter of respect ?
> 
> Sure, you *can* rewrite it, but why would you *want* to ?
(sorry, that was as clear as mud)

for what *concrete reasons* would you want to ?

such an author might much more readily be persuaded by real-world
uses than the abstract principle.  so it might be good to list them.

Regards,
Paddy