Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 30. June 1999 6:35 > [in response to Bradley Bell] > There's nothing stopping you from using a different > copyright. Many rules > files do.
Yes but not all combinations of copyrights are compatible. > (Which brings up a point - most debhelper rules files claim to be GPL > copyrighted by me. That's really a bad thing, because the GPL > may not be > compatable with the package they're in. When I talked about > this with Ian > Jackson he said that's why he used what he used on his rules > files (go dig > up an older rules file to see it, I don't have it handy.) Perhaps the model rules should have a good copyright note. Could somebody (in -legal, perhaps) craft a copyright statement that would be compatible with the most common licenses in main. Perhaps policy should have a mention about rules copyright. Also lintian could have a check that maintaner and rules copyright should match (or that rules should not be copyrighted by Joey or Manoj or ...). > Anyway the upshot is if you see GPL copyright by Joey Hess on > a rules file > and it's a problem I will allow it to be changed to a less restrictive > copyright as necessary.) t.aa (happily proposing things for others to do )
