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On Sat, Aug 26 2017, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Seconded with or without the following nit.
>
> Minor wording nit: I would put a period after "obtained" and make the next
> part a separate sentence. ("The copyright file should include a name or
> contact address for the upstream authors.") Otherwise, it could be read
> as saying that the copyright file can only omit the upstream source
> information if the URL pointed to by Homepage includes name or contact
> information, but (a) that's not the point of your change, and (b) we want
> that contact information to always be in the copyright file if available
> because upstream URLs tend to disappear.
I don't think this is so minor!
The paragraph says that the upstream contact information can just be a
URL, and if it is, then I think it could be omitted in favour of the
Homepage: field. It was deliberate that my addition applies to both the
'must' and the 'should' requirements.
Do you disagree with this?
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Sean Whitton
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