Re: Lintian over sensitivity?
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:
> Well, for example the U.S. Copyright Office specifies:
>
> The symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word
> “Copyright,” or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and
> -- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html
>
> so I would assume it needs to be capitalized, and not be part of a
> sentence.
In general, I think it's usually safe to assume that case doesn't matter
in written English. It's highly unusual for case to be significant in any
legal sense, at least outside of trademark law.
> More important for debian/copyright is, I think, to give it in the same
> format(s) as the upstream author does. That's not something lintian can
> check.
Yup.
> I declare that I'm finished painting this bikeshed. The door is sticky
> and windows are opaque now. Where is the next one?
*grin*.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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