On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 08:22:25PM +0100, Daniel Pocock wrote: > Just to clarify, I do not believe that maintaining this field should be > obligatory > It should be an optional field > Defining it formally in the standard and having some examples will help > emphasize the difference between what people should put in the Copyright > field and what should not be there. I don't think adding a new optional field to the file format is the correct way to explain to maintainers what "copyright" means. We should just fix the wrong expectation that authors be listed in debian/copyright if they are not copyright holders. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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