Re: Bug#47438: Copyright Information (Debian Policy Manual)
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:57:04PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Even if it's not enforceable, I think something with a more recent
> date is better than nothing. So I'm happy with adding a copyright line
> for "Debian Policy List Contributors" or something.
That's worse than nothing. There is no entity named "Debian Policy List
Contributors" that holds any copyright on this document, and we should not
include patently false copyright notices.
> Maybe it should be part of the Teams/Policy "constitution" that anyone
> contributing to the Debian Policy Manual signs off copyright to the
> SPI Inc.
I have no objection to assigning the copyright for any of my own
contributions to the policy manual, but SPI doesn't have a framework in
place for doing copyright assignment today (and even with the FSF, who have
quite a bit of experience with this, the copyright assignment process is
somewhat onerous).
In practice, the only reason we need to care about getting a comprehensive
list of copyright holders is if we want to relicense the document, and that
requires not only a list of the copyright holders but also a consensus to
relicense. So this is really a minor issue.
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