On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 10:07 AM, John Morrissey <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm packaging the PHP PEAR Crypt_Blowfish library. > > The package has two maintainers, one of which seems to have taken over > active maintenance of the library. The copyright information on upstream's > source is 2005-2008 by the original (now inactive) author. Sounds like the new author's changes are not copyrightable, they didn't want to claim copyright over them or they don't know or care about adding copyright notices. > The newer maintainer has made bugfixes to the source without updating the > copyright information. Do I need to have upstream update the copyright > notice on these files before packaging this software? It isn't nessecary. It is a good idea to contact upstream to establish a relationship for future collaboration when packaging something though. One of the topics you could bring up in that initial contact is the copyright information update. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
