On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 09:09:14PM +0100, Claudio Moratti wrote: > On Thursday 22 December 2005 20:01, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > Hi, Claudio. > > > > On Dec 22 2005, Claudio Moratti wrote: > > > I sent, some time ago, two ITPs: vamps (#320067) and k9copy (#320045)... > > > > Right. Since your first announcement here, I was quite pleased to know > > that there was someone maintaing packages of these programs. I would > > really love to see them in the Debian repository. > > > > > Packages are ready, but vamps can not enter in Debian, because the > > > upstream author don't want to make public his real identity (now in > > > debian/copyright I've a "Vamps Admin <email>", but this solution does > > > not follow the Debian Policy.... > > > > If the author is really reachable via that e-mail, I'd think that it > > should be OK, but, unfortunately, I haven't read the sections of the > > Policy regarding legal issues and I am certainly outdated on these > > issues. > The section is reported in Alexander Schmehl e-mail... > > The fact is that the holder of copyright is not a real person... > but one friend sent me a link to a Debian discussion about a package: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1999/09/msg00057.html > > that take, as example, proftpd package... I read the debian/copyright of > proftpd package and the copyright field is: > == > * ProFTPD - FTP server daemon > * Copyright (c) 1997, 1998 Public Flood Software > * > * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify > * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by > * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or > * (at your option) any later version. > ... > == > > Having a 'old' package that doe not have a real person as copyright holder > gives me a chance to send k9copy and vamps package in Debian :D Indeed, many packages aren't copyrighted by individual person[s]; check out the 'coreutils' package, the copyright of which is held by some funky group called the 'free the software foundation'.
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