Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?
"Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)" <jonathan@ubuntu.com> writes:
> On 10/02/2013 03:14, Paul Wise wrote:
>> My advice would just to put "Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch" and a
>> DFSG-free license, anything else would be more effort on your part.
> I've considered using "Copyright 2013 Debian Project" for the licensing
> of packaging that's intended to go into Debian. What would happen if I
> do that? Would the package get rejected? Is it possible for an entity
> like Debian to gain copyright to something if it's more or less
> unknowingly?
I'm not sure what the ftp-team would do, but that statement is basically
legally meaningless. It doesn't change the fact that you personally hold
the copyright, it doesn't give anyone in Debian (or Software in the Public
Interest) the ability to defend the license in court... it basically has
the same amount of effect as putting "the moon is made of green cheese" in
your packaging. (There may be some impact on seeking statutory damages in
countries like the US where damages can change based on the presence of a
copyright notice, but that's pretty much an edge case.)
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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