On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:51:39PM +0200, Xavier Oswald wrote: > So I see no needs in having the debian maintainer(s) name who were involved in > the creation in debian/copyright too. It's an information duplication. The one reason to include this information in debian/copyright is that the packagers may be copyright holders for contents under Debian. However, this a) is not limited to the original packagers, b) may not be true in many cases today, where the debian/ directory for many packages is trivial boilerplate. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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