Bug#975250: clarify gathering together of copyright information
Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> writes:
> I appreciate that the FSF cares about old years and things going into
> public domain. I think that we should value being able to coalesce
> years more than we value that pedantry. I think the FSF has adequately
> explained the legal rationale for their view, I think their legal
> reasoning is sound (so we can rely on it), and I think it doesn't apply
> to our needs (so we can do something else).
> I don't think we should go so far as to only list the most recent year,
> but I do think we should collapse things down to a range in
> debian/copyright.
> I always assumed from the current wording we could do so and it's a
> significant surprise to me that you are arguing we cannot.
I personally don't particularly care, so if that's the consensus, I'm
happy to go with that. Perhaps I'm being too pedantic.
For whatever it's worth, I've never assumed we can coalesce years in a way
that drops gaps, and never have done so myself, so it's obvious that we
should write something down since two people who have both worked in
Debian for a very long time had different understandings of what was
allowed. :)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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