Thibaut Paumard wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:34:02 -0700 > Warren Turkal <wt@atmos.colostate.edu> wrote: > [...] >> "The software was previously packaged for Debian by Karl Sackett, >> Brian Mays, >> and others. This package is a complete reengineering of of the >> packaging to >> bring the package up to current standards. It is not based on prior >> packaging except for compatibility of package names." > > On this I disagree with Patrick. IMHO, the copyright file is no place > for history. This information is contained in the changelog already. Well, at last we do not disagree to each other. In general i think copyright's existence is to honor every bodies copyright and licensing. Therefore *if* the package is based on previous packages i feel like it is for history. But if not (if 99,999% of the work were done by Warren) ... see next paragraph. > Since you revamped the package completely, you are the only author and > copyright holder for the debian directory material, that's what has to > go into copyright (as well as which license you put on these files). Yes, thats the fact i wasn't aware of when i wrote my comments. In this case i agree with you. If - and only if - Warren totally reworked everything (exceptions for the name of the package and changelog) it shouldn't be necessary (IMHO!) to list previous authors there. But it would be nicer to do so. Greets Patrick
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