Re: debian/copyright verbosity
On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:52:55PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote:
> The threshold is fuzzy - it's constructed from an abstract sense of
> what the maintainer feels is suitable and what the upstream decide to
> put into particular files, commonly AUTHORS. Upstream do not include
> the copyright details of everyone who has ever submitted a patch so
> those details are completely impossible to add. The main purpose,
> AFAICT, is that the main contributors are correctly attributed, nothing
> more.
Agreed. This was the outcome of the previous copyright proposal discussion.
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
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