On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:57:10PM +0100, John Hedges wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:13:37PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: [...] > > * debian/copyright does not list the actual copyright notice. See > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg00007.html [...] > Thanks for your interest and advice. I was hoping to get away with the > 'new maintainer' bugfix but agree that now is a good time to get the > package into some kind of shape.
;-) The copyright issue is release critical, http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt > I followed the advice given here in > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/12/msg00194.html for the > copyight file and so included all the copyright from the source > verbatim. Should I add the full copyright message to the existing or > replace it altogether? You should list download source, the copyright notices, point to /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 and list current and previous Debian maintainers. cu andreas
