Hi,
Thanks for your quick response.
In retrospect, my initial bug report may have had some skewed view on
the copyright law since Japan being more like French law on this subject.
I still think that this lintian report is *pedantic* to nitpick on one
requirement and misses other requirements.
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes:
I still think that this lintian report is *pedantic* to nitpick on one
requirement and misses other requirements. Let me make a bit balanced
requests.
(2) explicitly mention US being a signatory to the Berne Convention
I don't see a need to single out
Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.4
Severity: important
Tags: patch
Summary:
copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright is giving a legally
incorrect statement to lintian users in very annoying way. It is best
removed immediately. -p0 patch attached.
Explanation:
Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org writes:
Summary:
copyright-with-old-dh-make-debian-copyright is giving a legally
incorrect statement to lintian users in very annoying way. It is best
removed immediately. -p0 patch attached.
I'm fairly certain that your analysis is incorrect, but we can
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes:
I'm fairly sure (having read the relevant law several times, as well as
legal analyses of it) that Lintian's statement is correct in US law,
although possibly poorly phrased.
I have applied the following patch, which should hopefully make this
clearer.
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