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Bug#47438: Copyright Information (Debian Policy Manual)



Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i.yu@gmail.com> writes:

> Does the Debian Policy Manual's copyright information need to be
> updated?
>
> Currently it says:
>    Copyright Notice
>
>    Copyright © 1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.
>
>    But clearly the new contributors should have a copyright line as
> well, indicating their contributions in the meantime?

The problem there is basically that we don't know who to list.  I
suppose we could go back to the beginning of Manoj's arch history and
then troll the changelog for more people to list, but that has a lot of
limitations.  Also, we'd be listing dozens of people if we were
comprehensive, although I suppose we could move that to an appendix.

See http://bugs.debian.org/47438 for lots of discussion of this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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