Russ Allbery wrote:
> Policy 12.5 says:
>
> In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream sources
> (if any) were obtained, and should name the original authors.
>
> The last part is not at all clear. Prior to a recent conversation on
> debian-mentors, I had always assumed that this meant the legal authors,
Right. That interpretation would render the requirement redundant
next to the need for copyright information, so I don't like it very
much. (Maybe I'm in the minority, though?)
Here's a strawman illustrating what I think the sentence meant to say.
diff --git i/policy.sgml w/policy.sgml
index 52dbb26a..adb0c1c4 100644
--- i/policy.sgml
+++ w/policy.sgml
@@ -9873,8 +9873,15 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
<p>
In addition, the copyright file must say where the upstream
- sources (if any) were obtained, and should name the original
- authors.
+ sources (if any) were obtained, and should include a name or
+ contact address for the upstream authors.<footnote>
+ <p>
+ This can be the name of an individual or an organization,
+ an email address, a web forum or bugtracker, or any other
+ means to unambiguously identify who to contact to
+ participate in the development of the upstream source code.
+ </p>
+ </footnote>
</p>
<p>
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