Hi Andreas 2015-05-19 7:08 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu>:
> Hi Alba, > > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:43:58PM +0100, Alba Crespi wrote: > > 2015-05-18 21:21 GMT+01:00 Andreas Tille <andr...@an3as.eu>: > > > > > A missing Copyright field > > > > > > missing-field-in-dep5-copyright > > > > There is no copyright holder, since it's public domain! > > > > I can list the author there, but that's not really correct. > > We are now diving in the field of law where at least I feel totally > incompetent and I just repeat what I was told and what I understand with > my poor background. There are countries (for instance Germany) where as > an author you can not "loose" your copyright as an author. There is a > difference between copyright and a license. To put something under > publich domain means you give permission to everybody to do whatever the > user wants to do. However, you remain the author of the code and will > never loose this status. > > >From a Debian point of view I can tell you that it is safe to list the > author under Copyright and public-domain as license. This is what > ftpmaster wants you to do to accept the package (at least to my > experience) and I think this makes some sense to fit different law > systems. > Well, I found a discussion about how to describe public-domain files in the machine readable copyright format: #694883 which you can see here: http://bugs.debian.org/694883 This bug report also references a discussion starting here: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/12/msg00000.html Thread view: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2012/12/threads.html#00000 So as far as I understand in this case it should be ok to put: Copyright: none Cheers, Alba
