Russ Allbery <[email protected]> writes: > Well, from my perspective Debian rigorously tracks *licenses*. > Copyright notices are, I think, a distraction. They're not required > in any country that's a Berne signatory and they really have no > practical effect. > > The GPL requires that we retain the copyright notice that was on the > manual when we started, or I'd just remove it entirely to avoid the > confusion. > > What would people think of a patch like this, to at least remove the > confusion? > > --- a/policy.sgml > +++ b/policy.sgml > @@ -25,6 +25,13 @@ > and Christian Schwarz. > </copyrightsummary> > <p> > + These are the copyright dates of the original Poilcy manual. > + Since then, this manual has been updated by many others. No > + comprehensive collection of copyright notices for subsequent > + work exists. > + </p> > + > + <p>
I've applied this patch (with the obvious typo fix for "Poilcy") for the next release. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
