Hi,
On Fri Aug 28, 2026 at 9:20 PM CEST, Marvin Renich wrote:
My point is that the copyrights and licenses in upstream's source
package are explicitly non-mutable. If you change them, you are
speaking on their behalf, not for yourselves.
E.g. GPLv2 includes:
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of
this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
And the MIT-style license includes:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
And the BSD license:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Debian is not permitted to change or add a date to upstream's
copyright notice. Doing so violates the license.
I think this refers to the license text itself, not the copyright
notice.
Bye :)
