On 11-06-06 at 11:20am, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > I'm unaware of a hard requirement that we track upstream authors > (though it is certainly polite to do so); Agreed. It is a "should" in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile i.e. "only" a strong recommendation. > but aside from the possibility of a sub-licensing scheme, debian > clearly needs to track the copyright holders, since it is from them > that debian gets a license to use, modify, and redistribute the > software. > > Given that the upstream author is most often the same entity as the > copyright holder, it's not hard to see why they get conflated > sometimes; but if we're trying to do the Right Thing, we need to be > clear about which is which. Yes. Sorry for (my contribution to) the confusion. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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