Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > > > In practice, that means: > > > > * explicit, unambiguous statements of which parties hold copyright in > > the work […] and when that copyright begins […] In other words, > > full UCC-style copyright statements including full years and legal > > entity names. > > What if there is no such notice in the upstream source? It's not > required by any legal jurisdiction that matters to Debian so far as > I know, so it's not unreasonable for upstream to not bother.
Yes. I think that in those cases we get to write them, based on our understanding of who the copyright holders are. The information needs to be explicit, I think. > Reading between the lines, it sounds like you don't think that the > FSF address needs to be in the copyright file either, correct? I'm undecided. I think it's part of the license grant; certainly the FSF make much of the fact that the recipient needs to be explicitly informed of the license so they have every opportunity to know what their freedoms are. -- \ “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all | `\ others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking | _o__) power called an idea” —Thomas Jefferson | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
