Bug#975250: clarify gathering together of copyright information

[Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>]

Here's my take on the discussion so far.
And I want to stress that I am not a policy editor, and to the extent
that they read the discusssion differently than I do, their reading
controls.

* Russ and I would be willing to accept either outcome--either you can
  collapse years or you cannot.

* Holder, you and I would prefer that you be able to collapse years.

* Sean would prefer that you not be able to collapse years.  He hasn't
  said whether his objection is strong enough to try and block
  consensus.

* I think there is a strong consensus that we want to make a change
  along the lines of one of your patches.

* I don't think anyone in the discussion so far would object to your
  second patch.  However, a majority of the participants might prefer
  your first patch.  Sean might object to that, and Russ might
  potentially think we haven't yet gotten enough showing of support to
  go that direction.

This is one of those awkward situations in consensus decision making
where you have to decide whether you're going to take the option
everyone can live with or do a bit more work and possibly get  an answer
that the community overall supports (even though some people do not).
What we should definitely avoid doing is losing energy and making no
change at all.

--Sam