Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > If we wanted to be absolutely faithful in preserving all information > about upstream copyright and licensing in the debian/copyright file, > we could just put a tarball of the entire upstream source in there.
That, too, would IMO fail the “usefully preserve” test. I had believed the ‘debian/copyright’ file is for preserving that information in a useful summary for those who want to know the copyright status of the work. The original source tarball is not such a useful summary. > The conversation is all about where to draw the line between obviously > absurd completeness and insufficient data. Yes, that is the core of the issue. How do we know when we've resolved it? I hope the answer isn't “when we run out of breath discussing it”. -- \ “All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.” | `\ —_Timequake_, Kurt Vonnegut | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
