Jongmin Kim <jm...@pukyong.ac.kr> writes: > In case of git repository, it is possible to extract all the author's > information by tracking the commit history.
Bear in mind that copyright law leaves plenty of ways that there is no connection betwee “person who authored the work” versus “entity who holds copyright in the work”. In many cases they happen to be the same entity, but you should not assume it. Always seek an explicit copyright statement. > If the upstream is git repository which has a lot of contributors, and > there is only one person in upstream's copyright file, should I use > that information? Or can I extract all author's information by myself > and add them in d/copyright? No, in my opinion it's not for some external party to assume they know who are the copyright holders. Always seek a written copyright statement from whoever *actually claims to be* the copyright holders of the work. For this reason also, it is a mistake to auto-generate copyright statements from a Git log of authors. You would thereby make assertions of copyright status, on behalf of someone else, which they never wrote. That is both risky (for the Debian Project to have information that no-one ever claimed was true) and rude (to make legal claims on behalf of someone else), I think. > I couldn't find the package 'debian-copyright', but I found a document by > following the location. Thank you! My apologies, I meant the ‘debian-policy’ package. -- \ “If you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to | `\ buy a new iPod at least once a year.” —Steve Jobs, MSNBC | _o__) interview 2006-05-25 | Ben Finney
