Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > The one reason to include this information in debian/copyright is that > the packagers may be copyright holders for contents under Debian. […]
Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> writes: > Ben Finney dijo [Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:27:04PM +1000]: > > I don't see why ‘debian/copyright’ needs to “name the Debian > > maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation”; surely the best > > location for that is the already-mandatory package maintainer data > > on entries in ‘debian/changelog’. > > However, having the maintainer name in debian/copyright does not only > serve the identification purpose - It also says under which licensing > scheme are the modifications licensed. Yes, of course. The license terms for all parts of the work, including the contributions from Debian maintainers, need to be written in ‘debian/copyright’. My point was that there is no *special* need for listing “the Debian maintainer(s) who were involved with its creation” having already satisfied the general list-all-copyright-license-terms and the needs of ‘debian/changelog’. -- \ “My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.” —Steven | `\ Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
