On Fri, 09 May 2014 19:00:22 +0200 Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: > it isn’t? It should be... Feel free to improve the template in any way > sou think it ought to be improved. > > Just making sure: We are both talking about > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-haskell/tools.git;a=tree;f=template-debian > right? Oh no. I threw around two different things. That template is perfectly fine. > > > > (If you agree, please also change the copyright file in setlocale > > > accordingly.) > > > > Setlocale is public domain. So I guess we could distribute it under a > > BSD-3 license, but should we really do that? > > In that case I’d would have suggested something like > > Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/ > Upstream-Name: haskell-setlocale > Source: hackage.haskell.org/package/setlocale > > Files: * > License: Public Domain > The author of this package, Lukas Mai, placed this package in > the > Public Domain. > > Files: debian/* > License: Public Domain > The maintainer of this package, Sven Bartscher, placed this > packaging in the Public Domain. > > but honestly, I don’t care too much. I would, but as I know german law says that the rights of authors *must* be protected and because of that german authors can't place anything in the public domain. So I would suggest we just leave setlocale the way it is. Even though I agree with you that it doesn't really make sense to apply copyright to debian/. Regards Sven
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