The copyright years in /usr/share/doc/getmail4/copyright are incorrect (not up-to-date). I have reported bug 743161[*] about that, but it has been closed because upstream doesn't care. This means that some time in the future, people could think that some code has fallen into the public domain, while this is actually not true. One may also wonder whether new code is distributed in the same license (one could interpret the lack of copyright notice update as unspecified license for the new code).
If upstream doesn't care, that's their problem in case of future dispute if the software has been obtained from them. But here the software is distributed by Debian. So, I think that Debian should provide correct copyright information when information becomes available. [*] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=743161 -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
