-=| gregor herrmann, 1.08.2007 13:24 |=- > On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 12:52:28 +0300, Damyan Ivanov wrote: > >>> libemail-localdelivery-perl >> debian/copyright misses copyright for the packaging. Perhaps even >> mention DPG there? > > AFAIK there are a lot of packages without this notice. Is this > necessary nowadays? If not: I'm no a great fan of it because I don't > think that the "craft" of packaging something is worth to be > protected by copyright (or it's not even possible; Austrian law e.g. > demands a "Schöpfungshöhe" / "Threshold of Originality" and I don't > think that this demand is fulfilled by using dh-make-perl and dh_*) > [0] One of the DAMs recommends including this anyway. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html I really do think that packaging is a creative act so copyright law is applicable. I doubt there are many packages that are simply result of dh-make-perl. I'll try to add the stanza to dh-make-perl. > Anyway, I have no objections to adding such a stanza either ;-) Please do then. I know all this "legal" stuff is extremely boring. >> that patch looks intrusive and I don't see it reported upstream. Seems >> strange. > > Niko? I can live with this patch, but if it is useful and needed, better have it applied upstream too. -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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