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Re: Copyright License Proposal



On 11-06-06 at 09:28am, Guy Hulbert wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 15:15 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > But no, copyright and licensing is *not* the same.
> 
> In fact, a "license" is a legal contract between the user and publisher.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license
> 
> Notice "publisher" rather than "author".

For Debian, not publisher but "original authors" are needed: 
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile


Wikipedia may be correct for some legal jurisdictions - but most likely 
not all!


 - Jonas

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