Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > If the upstream license doesn't require that we preserve the > copyright statement (or if upstream doesn't have them), I'm not sure > we need to be requiring that they be collected into > debian/copyright.
I am working from the assumption that we need, at least in principle, to maintain an accurate knowledge of the copyright status of the works we distribute in Debian. I base that assumption on the necessity of that information when evaluating claims (made against the Debian project) of copyright infringement in those works. If ignorance of the copyright status of a work were a valid defense, that would certainly obviate the burden for a distributor to actively maintain accurate copyright status knowledge in the works they distribute. I don't think that's true, though. -- \ “Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe | `\ or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” —Arthur C. Clarke, | _o__) 1999 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
