Le Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:26:29PM +0100, Francesco Poli a écrit : > > P.P.S.: I am not sure what you should write in the Copyright field for > the upstream files, but "(c) 1996-2012 by Thomas A. McGlynn" does not > look right, as long as the upstream work is really in the public domain > (which, as you probably know, means that the work is *not* subject to > copyright!)... > The machine-readable debian/copyright file format specification v1.0 > (http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/) > is not too clear on this point, unfortunately... > Maybe you should ask on the debian-policy mailing list and suggest that > this topic should be clarified in the specification.
Hi Francesco, the 1.0 specification mentions for the Copyright field: If a work has no copyright holder (i.e., it is in the public domain), that information should be recorded here. Inspecting Debian copyright files from svn://anonscm.debian.org/collab-qa/packages-metadata/ I see that many chose contents such as "none", "nobody", "public-domain", "not relevant", etc, which I think are good enough, given that the content of the Copyright field is free-form. Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121201014747.ga31...@falafel.plessy.net
