On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 06:44:13PM +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: >> W: fakeroot-ng: copyright-without-copyright-notice >> N: >> N: The copyright file for this package does not appear to contain a >> N: copyright notice. You should copy the copyright notice from the >> N: upstream source (or add one of your own for a native package). A >> N: copyright notice must consist of Copyright, Copr., or the Unicode >> N: symbol of C in a circle followed by the years and the copyright >> N: holder. > This is the copyright file: > >> Fakeroot-ng is copyrighted (C) 2007-2008 by Shachar Shemesh >> The Debian packaging is (C) 2008, Shachar Shemesh <shachar@debian.org> and >> is licensed under the GPL, see above. > At least superficially, the copyright file lives up to all of the > requirements that lintian asks for. No, lintian specifically mentions "the Unicode symbol of C in a circle". (C) seems to be legally meaningless (although I would be surprised if a judge would consider it unclear, it's better to be safe than sorry. ;-) Also, lintian wants a statement of the form "Copyright <year> <author>". While saying "it is copyrighted <year> <author>" seems to have the same meaning to me, I'm not sure how lawyers think about this. Again, better be safe and use the standard format. > Changing the line to read: >> Copyright (C) 2007-2008 by Shachar Shemesh > pacifies lintian, but I still think this is over sensitivity on its behalf. This is about lawyer-speak. You can never be over-sensitve with them, because they often manage to misunderstand you in ways you wouldn't expect. ;-) Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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