Quoting Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com): > Package: debian-installer-manual > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 2.3
(no legal nitpicking in the following, just common sense) Please note for further reference that each and every line, paragraph, documentation, translation, line of code, web page I have personnally ever contributed to any free software project does not need any special attribution, license or whatever to be re-used. This is true for all my contributions in free software in the last 13 years as well as any other contribution I could have made since January 1981 (IIRC the first time I ever hit a computer keyboard). In short, anyone is free to re-use any material I have ever contributed in free software projects as long as the general license of these projects are respected. And I don't care about my bloody name to be mentioned or not. Sometimes I wish that free software contributors forget about legal nitpicking and licenses/copyright headaches to just concentrate on coding. I know this won't happen and I know this won't make you change your mind. Just another point of view. This thread is probably started for days and will eat the time of dozens of developers, especially Joey Hess who I consider as the major architect of the technical success of the Debian Installer. This, just to solve your concerns about your work not being "properly" attributed, according to your own reference system. This will probably trigger other such requests because it is highly probable that you are legally perfectly entitled to this. This is so great. Joey, and probably Frans Pop, who is in charge of the installer manual, will have to spend a lot of valuable hours to track down and solve such issues. Maybe even far more than the time saved by including your work in the installer manual. So, just think about this : have you *really* contributed to this software project? You will probably try to convince me that you're right. You don't need to. You *are* technically right. In my reference system, you are not morally right.
