On Mon, 09 Jul 2007, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Don Armstrong: > > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007, Ben Finney wrote: > >> An email has been judged sufficient for many Debian packages, if it > >> unambiguously specifies all of the above, and is clearly from the > >> copyright holder. Copy and paste into the 'debian/copyright' file > >> the part of the message that has all that information, along with > >> that message's 'date', 'from', 'message-id' fields. > > > > Yeah; bonus points if the message is GPG signed by a key which is in > > and multiply connected to strongly connected set. > > Yeah, as if this made it a particularly authoritative source for any > kind of legal statement. 8-)
Short of having a notarized signed statement, it's the best we can do; while there are obviously methods of exploiting it, it's clearly better than just an e-mail. Most importantly, it allows us to have a reasonable belief that the copyright holder has actually licensed us to distribute the work. Don Armstrong -- Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I did all day? -- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]