Russ Allbery writes:
> Well, from my perspective Debian rigorously tracks *licenses*.
> Copyright notices are, I think, a distraction. They're not required
> in any country that's a Berne signatory and they really have no
> practical effect.
>
> The GPL requires that we retain the copyright noti
Hm. Everyone has raised valid points here, and I understand that in
practice it's difficult to sort this out due to missing history.
I'm satisfied with the wording that Russ proposed to help clarify
things regarding the copyright year, in lieu of a full author list.
(In hindsight it's always nicer
On Mon, Jun 29 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Yu writes:
>
>> Does the Debian Policy Manual's copyright information need to be
>> updated?
>>
>> Currently it says:
>>Copyright Notice
>>
>>Copyright © 1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.
>>
>>But clearly the new cont
On Mon, Jun 29 2009, Russ Allbery wrote:
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@
> and Christian Schwarz.
>
>
> + These are the copyright dates of the original Poilcy manual.
> + Since then, this manual has been updated by many othe
Jonathan Yu writes:
> Hmm. As I said I'm not a lawyer, and you raise some valid points :-)
>
> Could we perhaps at least update the copyright years? I'm not sure if
> that really makes sense, though, because I don't think Ian Jackson has
> been actively working on the Policy for awhile.
>
> I sup
Steve:
Hmm. As I said I'm not a lawyer, and you raise some valid points :-)
Could we perhaps at least update the copyright years? I'm not sure if
that really makes sense, though, because I don't think Ian Jackson has
been actively working on the Policy for awhile.
I suppose copyright of the Poli
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 01:57:04PM -0400, Jonathan Yu wrote:
> Even if it's not enforceable, I think something with a more recent
> date is better than nothing. So I'm happy with adding a copyright line
> for "Debian Policy List Contributors" or something.
That's worse than nothing. There is no e
Russ:
Thanks, I was unaware that there were bugs outstanding.
For such an important document I think some sort of recent copyright
is needed, though from reading the discussion on BTS#47438, I wouldn't
know what to put either. Everyone discussing on that list makes
compelling arguments, though I
Jonathan Yu writes:
> Does the Debian Policy Manual's copyright information need to be
> updated?
>
> Currently it says:
>Copyright Notice
>
>Copyright © 1996,1997,1998 Ian Jackson and Christian Schwarz.
>
>But clearly the new contributors should have a copyright line as
> well, indic
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