On Sat, 1 Dec 2012 10:47:47 +0900 Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > > > P.P.S.: I am not sure what you should write in the Copyright field for > > the upstream files, but "(c) 1996-2012 by Thomas A. McGlynn" does not > > look right, as long as the upstream work is really in the public domain > > (which, as you probably know, means that the work is *not* subject to > > copyright!)... > > The machine-readable debian/copyright file format specification v1.0 > > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/) > > is not too clear on this point, unfortunately... > > Maybe you should ask on the debian-policy mailing list and suggest that > > this topic should be clarified in the specification. > > Hi Francesco, Hi Charles! > > the 1.0 specification mentions for the Copyright field: > > If a work has no copyright holder (i.e., it is in the public domain), that > information should be recorded here. Yes, I had read that, but it didn't seem too clear to me. Since one of the "standard short names" for the License field is "public-domain", I thought that specifying Copyright: public-domain License: public-domain [explanation of why the files are in the public domain...] was awkward and redundant. Hence, I wondered what should be put in the Copyright field when the License field says "public-domain"... > > Inspecting Debian copyright files from > svn://anonscm.debian.org/collab-qa/packages-metadata/ I see that many chose > contents such as "none", "nobody", "public-domain", "not relevant", etc, which > I think are good enough, given that the content of the Copyright field is > free-form. OK, so maybe Copyright: none License: public-domain [explanation of why the files are in the public domain...] is the way to go. I just wish that the 1.0 specification were more explicit on this point... > > Have a nice week-end, The same to you, and thanks for your kind reply. -- http://www.inventati.org/frx/frx-gpg-key-transition-2010.txt New GnuPG key, see the transition document! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == CA01 1147 9CD2 EFDF FB82 3925 3E1C 27E1 1F69 BFFE
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