Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?
- To: Steve Robbins <steve@sumost.ca>
- Cc: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Chris Lamb <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>, Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>, Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Has Copyright summarizing outlived its usefulness?
- From: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
- Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 23:11:20 +0100
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On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 12:44:52 -0600, Steve Robbins wrote:
> However, the consensus voiced in this thread (as was the case of the same in
> 2016) is that while license summarizing (which can include, if the license has
> language such as Russ identified, also listing copyrights) is valuable,
> nothing has been said in favour of copyright summarizing.
My understanding is that a license without any information who puts
the software under this license (i.e. who is the copyright holder who
can grant these rights) is incomplete.
Cheers,
gregor
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