Hi Daniel!

> Le 5472 Septembre 1993, Matthieu Moy a envoyé:
>> Probably Robert was the original author of that particular file (I
>> don't remember), but for the whole package, it seems strange to
>> distinguish a contributor in this way (not that I do not value
>> Robert's contributions, don't get me wrong ;-)).
>
> Ok.
>
>> I'm not talking about the list, but about the "Copyright (C)" line.
>>
>>>> (BTW, that's 2008, not 2007, right ?)
>>>
>>> According to [1] it's the list of all years from the beginning 
>>
>> Then, "2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008", but 2004-2007 is wrong.
>
> I greped copyright files under /usr/share/doc/*/
>
> Several package include a copyright for each contributor, example:
>
> bzr-builddeb/copyright:# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006, 2007 Aaron Bentley <[EMAIL 
> PROTECTED]>
> bzr-builddeb/copyright:# Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Canonical Limited.
> bzr-builddeb/copyright:# Copyright (C) 2006 Michael Ellerman.
>
> It seems that we need the first-last submission for each
> developper :-/, isn't it ?

I don't think so.

Here is what is used for the emms package on my machine:

,----
| This package was debianized  by Jorgen Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on
| Sat,  7  Feb 2004  21:10:24  +0100. It  is  now  maintained by  Arnaud
| Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
| 
| It was downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/software/emms/
| 
| Upstream Authors:
| 
|   Jorgen Schäfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|   Ulrik Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|   Mario Domgörgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| 
| Copyright:
| 
|   Copyright (C) 1985-2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
| 
| License:
| 
|   This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
|   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
|   the Free  Software Foundation, either  version 3 of the  License, or
|   (at your option) any later version.
| 
|   This program is distributed in the  hope that it will be useful, but
|   WITHOUT  ANY   WARRANTY;  without  even  the   implied  warranty  of
|   MERCHANTABILITY or  FITNESS FOR A  PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See  the GNU
|   General Public License for more details.
| 
|   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
|   along with this program.  If not, see
|   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
| 
| On Debian  GNU systems,  the complete text  of the GNU  General xPublic
| License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
| 
| The   Debian    packaging   is   (C)    2004-2007,   Jorgen   Schaefer
| <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and 2007, Arnaud Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. It's
| licensed under  the GPL. On Debian  systems, the complete  text of the
| GNU     General     Public     License     can     be     found     in
| `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
| 
| ;; Local variables:
| ;; coding: utf-8
| ;; End:
`----

So I suggest to list the DVC-Team as copyright holder and mention all
the Upstream Authors


Stefan.

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