Hello Steffan, -=| Steffen Mueller, Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 04:32:59PM +0100 |=- > > Damyan Ivanov wrote: > > It seems to me you only added the license boilerplace. Copyright is > > not mentioned. > > okay, looking at the /usr/share/doc/gnome-icon-theme/ directory of my > laptop (it's ubuntu, but they took the package from debian afaict): > Where's the actual 'Copyright' statement? There's a "copyright" file > with the license boilerplate which I added. It also says "upstream > authors: see Changelog.gz". AUTHORS contains a bunch of names and > addresses, but nowhere is a clear "Copyright 1995-2009 Foo Bar" > statement or anything that comes close. I'd resort to the original upstream source. The URL should be noted in the copyright file you looked at. I followed that to http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-icon-theme/2.24/gnome-icon-theme-2.24.0.tar.bz2 In that tarball, there is an AUTHORS file. There are no years, however. This is not critical, as the years of copyright are implicit. They are very nice to have, but not mandatory. In the analogous file on Debian (using the experimental package) clearly states copyright, including years. I guess these are deduced from upstream changelog. My recommendation is to get the art from its authors and use the copyright/licensing information available there. Thank you for your patience! I know I tend to be overly pedantic. I am not expert in the area and therefore prefer to err on the safe side. -- dam JabberID: dam@jabber.minus273.org
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