Daniel Pocock wrote:
> I've only come across one package which included public-domain material
> so far. In this case, I put a note about the author in the comments.
Yep - that works, too.
[...]
> One risk of not having this extra field is that we could accumulate
> excessive things in the Copyright field. E.g. some packagers may be
> including the names of contributors as if they are copyright holders
> because they are afraid their package will be queried (and subsequently
> delayed) by the FTP masters if they left something out by mistake.
Hm. copyright-format already says
one or more free-form copyright statements.
[...]
The Copyright field collects all relevant copyright notices
for the files of this paragraph.
It doesn't say anything about listing authors. It actually looks
pretty clear.
Maybe some ftp-master related documentation needs an update (e.g.,
perhaps the chain of links
https://ftp-master.debian.org/
-> REJECT-FAQ
-> "this mail" <87u09lawkj....@vorlon.ganneff.de>
has been misleading people). In that case, I suspect a fix to
bug#678607 (clarifying that there is no need for debian/copyright to
list who wrote each line of code) would help. I don't think adding
extra fields would save people from this source of worry.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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