On Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:39:31 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Policy 12.5 says: > > In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources > (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors. > > The last part is not at all clear. Prior to a recent conversation on > debian-mentors, I had always assumed that this meant the legal authors, [..] > Similarly, "original" is ambiguous. I had always assumed that meant > "upstream," as in the current upstream maintainer, I agree that "original authors" is not clear, and I've also made the same assumptions as you. - Getting the ambiguities fixed seems like a good idea to me. I'd be happy to either drop the "original author" part [copyright information is in the first paragraph anyway] or to change it into something like "optionally the upstream contact information can be named". Speaking about the first paragraph Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright information and distribution license in the file /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. IIRC the "verbatim copy" has also led to confusion, maybe we could change it to "accurate" or "complete" or something along these lines. Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `-
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