On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 09:42:35AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Why do they have to? I know, the ftp team made it up. But there > is no reason in policy or in copyright law for such copying to > occur. But it would be nice to know why it is needed.
I can think of a few desirable reasons: * To show the FTP masters that they have thoroughly checked the licensing. * To provide concise information for our users. > > We require, and have seen nothing to convince us otherwise, that Debian > > maintainers need to do the basic work of listing each copyright holder in > > debian/copyright, as seen in the source files and AUTHORS list or > > equivalent (if any). > > Why do you think this work is needed? You must have had some > rationale, since you made up this policy. Again, to document that they have, in fact, done what they are supposed to. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
