Hi Joachim and Simon, On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 01:25:14PM -0400, Joachim Breitner wrote: > > I question the value of precise debian/copyright files, or at least > question the effort-to-value ratio. The legal situation is generally > not affected by whether we have course or fine copyright files, or > whether we have them at all. > ...
I can confirm that I agree with many of your points and I like the stamp collection comparison. To come back to the original question I had in this thread: I totally fail to understand what might be the added value of specifying a copyright of a file generated by some other software we have included into Debian and thus per definition is free. Users who really intend to copy this for some purpose and do something with this autogenerated file (and thus need the information of copyright) do IMHO not know what they are doing and chances tend to be zero they care for any copyright. So what exactly should be the profit of copyright notices of files generated by other programs in the package build process? Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de