Bug#737559: copyright-format: author != copyright, add an author field?
Package: debian-policy
Author and copyright holder are not always the same person/entity.
E.g. the work may be authored by Bob but the copyright is assigned to
his employer Acme, Inc, e.g.
License: GPL2
Copyright: 2014, Acme, Inc http://acme.example.org
Author: Bob, http://example.org/bob
For cases where the License field contains the value public-domain and
the name of the author is known, it is not appropriate to put the name
in the license field, but it would be desirable to record the name of
the author, e.g.
License: public-domain
Copyright: none
Author: Bob, http://example.org/bob
This may also reflect real-life situations where contributor license
agreements require contributors to completely assign their intellectual
property to some organisation (such as FSF)
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright
Has this not already come up anywhere? I found a related bug that deals
with part of the issue (must insert "none" in the Copyright field of
public-domain) but that is not the whole issue, maybe they can be
resolved together
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694883
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