Simon McVittie writes ("Re: copyright precision"):
> I'm sure this is a very interesting academic exercise, but pragmatically,
> why do we want to require ourselves to go to all that effort? For that
> matter, is everything we require *now* necessary or desirable?Thanks for your excellent article. It is IMO a very valuable contribution to this conversation. Also, I can find nothing in it to disagree with :-). > --- > Self-imposed policy of documenting copyright information: Personally, I think it would be much better if binary packages had accurate centrally findable statements of their authorship information. For the purposes of giving credit (which is something I _want_ us to be doing) rather than some kind of legal compliance. But there are many many things that I think Debian could do much better. I certainly don't feel I personally want to put doing this work anywher enear the top of my personal Debian todo list list (or even my to-do-sometime-maybe list). Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
