On 2009-04-14, Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> 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.

How is your work on a useful summary of kdebase-workspace going ?

/Sune


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