Package: debian-policy Author and copyright holder are not always the same person/entity.
E.g. the work may be authored by Bob but the copyright is assigned to his employer Acme, Inc, e.g. License: GPL2 Copyright: 2014, Acme, Inc http://acme.example.org Author: Bob, http://example.org/bob For cases where the License field contains the value public-domain and the name of the author is known, it is not appropriate to put the name in the license field, but it would be desirable to record the name of the author, e.g. License: public-domain Copyright: none Author: Bob, http://example.org/bob This may also reflect real-life situations where contributor license agreements require contributors to completely assign their intellectual property to some organisation (such as FSF) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#AssignCopyright Has this not already come up anywhere? I found a related bug that deals with part of the issue (must insert "none" in the Copyright field of public-domain) but that is not the whole issue, maybe they can be resolved together http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=694883 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/52efe2ab.9080...@pocock.com.au
