On tisdagen den 14 april 2009, Ben Finney wrote: > Matthias Julius <lists@julius-net.net> writes: > > Would it be acceptable to condense this to: > > > > Files: foo.c > > bar.c > > Copyright: 2006, 2008 Mr. X > > License: GPL2+ > > > > Files: baz.c > > Copyright: 2005 Mr. Y > > License: GPL2+ > > > > or even further to: > > > > Files: *.c > > Copyright: 2006, 2008 Mr. X > > Copyright: 2005 Mr. Y > > License: GPL2+ > > Neither of these are true statements of the copyright; you have > *altered* the copyright claim so that it now makes a false claim (e.g., > you now state that ‘bar.c’ is “Copyright 2006 Mr. X”, which is > contrary to what the original source claims). > > I don't think it's acceptable to make false copyright claims in the > ‘debian/copyright’ file. I think it's acceptable and the only practical solution. It's far better to "over-attribute" than to "under-attribute". If someone wants to reuse only some parts of the code, and perhaps ask the authors for permission to use the source in a proprietary product, they can read the copyright statements of the individual files. But there is no guarantee that those are complete, and *we* certainly can't guarantee that. -- Magnus Holmgren holmgren@debian.org Debian Developer
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