On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:38:08PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote: > I don't think the FTP master will let the package in with just this > short notice (so short that I missed it despite looking for it). > > Maybe they would be OK if you reproduced said e-mail in full.
While the above is right... > But the best would of course be to get upstream to just add a > copyright notice at the beginning of each source file plus a copy of > the applicable license and release a new tarball. It should be about > 15 minutes of their time, well spent. ... this is just so wrong. The upstream will waste not just those 15 minutes, but also a couple of seconds every single time anyone opens a source file. That quickly adds up, to hours that could be spent doing productive work. Let's not allow lawyers to govern our lives; copyright is an evil we already have to spend massive amount of effort dealing with, let's not make it worse than needed. If a single license file per [sub]project is enough, anything more is a pure theft of time. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
