Bug#677013: RFS: time

[Bart Martens <bartm@debian.org>]

On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:27:06AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> writes:
> 
> > To answer my own question it is stated here:
> 
> >   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile
> 
> >   In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
> >   (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors.
> 
> > So definitely stated by Policy the original authors must be named.
> 
> The way that I would interpret that section for a typical GNU package is
> that the Free Software Foundation is the original authors (assuming, of
> course, it was a GNU package).

The file time-1.7/time.c contains this:
"Originally written by David Keppel <pardo@cs.washington.edu>."

So David Keppel is an "original author" as meant in debian-policy.

It is a mystery to me why you interpret debian-policy that in this case the
Free Software Foundation would be the original author.

> One *could* get more specific by listing
> the specific volunteers who did that work as part of the GNU project

In this case David Keppel is not just a volunteer, but a real "original
author".

> (but
> there isn't really a good spot for doing that other than a Comment
> section, as you mention),

Then I guess it is OK to use the Comment section for David Keppel.

Regards,

Bart Martens