Re: Bug#827907: RFS: evil/1.2.12-1 ITP
* Elena ``of Valhalla'' <elena.valhalla@gmail.com>, 2016-06-29, 10:13:
2. In d/copyright, I think you need to specify copyright years for the
copyright holders. Just their names is not enough, since on a desert
island ~60 years from now with no newer versions of evil available for
download, the code would become public domain :) (well, I guess the
old version of the code would be public domain on the mainland too)
AFAIK as long as the copyrigth date is recent enough (i.e. it doesn't
end in one of the miriad exceptions for past works) and the copyright
holder is not anonymous/a company the date of publication isn't
relevant for copyright expiry, just the date of death of the author
(which of course is not known in advance, so people on a desert island
have no way to know for sure whether something is in public domain
because of copyright expiry).
The legislators of the desert island were fully aware it's difficult to
establish dates of most creators' deaths. That's why they changed the
island's copyright law to only take publication dates into account.
--
Jakub Wilk
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