Hi Joël, On Fri, Mar 01, 2019 at 01:38:56PM +0100, Joël Krähemann wrote: > Hi, > > Do I need to mention the person submitted 3 patches in > debian/copyright file, containing a total of 5 lines changed in my > package? > > I have attached the patches. Upstream did a notice in ChangeLog and > AUTHORS as tiny change, as recommended by: > > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Legally-Significant > > bests, > Joël There seems to be a convention to credit the patch submitter in d/changelog with "thanks to Name Family_Name" when the patch is not legally significant. When a patch is legally significant it must be documented in d/copyright. Of course if the patch submitter also submitted a changelog entry, or if the patch imports in such a way that it generates one crediting the author, I'll retain that. Oh, and this is in addition to proper DEP-3 headers where the submitter is credited and the source is provided. When a patch is cherry picked from upstream, it falls under upstream's copyright, and I tend to believe that a DEP-3 header demonstrating upstream is the origin is sufficient, and that upstream's "Files: *" stanza doensn't needed to be extended to say "Files: * debian/patches/cherry-picked-commit.patch". Once again, if it's not legally significant it shouldn't be added to d/copyright, but DEP-3 headers should still be used. I'm sure more experienced members of this list can add something to the intersection of best practises and potential mountain of paperwork ;-) Cheers, Nicholas
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