On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:33:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Now, some of the objections you have heard is because of the > hard line you have been taking in this discussion about looking for > and adding copyright holders is not, as far as I can see, reflected in > current policy. > > And telling people they are doing a bad job and need to either > shape up or change policy does not actually seem to be corroborated by > policy, unless I am missing chunks.
Yeah, I apologise for this. This had been my understanding. Sorry. > BTW, to your list of solutions, I can add another one: > + realize this is busy work with little value in the common case, and > prefer to spend time otherwise improving the package. On the other hand, I think this needs to be clarified. I only maintain a small number of packages, but even then, I have regularly found files contained within those packages which were included for various reasons by upstream under a different license. In the case of planet-venus, I remove a not insignificant number of these for the DFSG. Clearly, some amount of checking each file is a good thing, so why not be explicit about what is required of a developer for this? Best, -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
