Implied vs. explicit copyright

2003-07-16 Thread Drew Scott Daniels
Is the an implied copyright notification (I.e. "code added by person") sufficient in the debian/copyright or is it necessary to say explicitly say "year copyright person"? Upstream explicitly states "year copyright person". Iirc, I read somewhere that (c) is not the same as the copyright simple a

Re: Bug#200411: www.debian.org: confusing description of non-US sections

2003-07-16 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 09:16:30AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:42:09PM +0200, Matt Kraai wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:15:01PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:59:34PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > > -Non-US/Main and Non-US/N

Re: Bug#200411: www.debian.org: confusing description of non-US sections

2003-07-16 Thread Brian M. Carlson
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 11:42:09PM +0200, Matt Kraai wrote: > On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 09:15:01PM +, Brian M. Carlson wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 09:59:34PM -0700, Matt Kraai wrote: > > > The thread > > > > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200207/msg0002

Re: DFSG FAQ (draft)

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Hood
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 15:42, Barak Pearlmutter wrote: > > > Q. How can I find out if there are known doubts about the freedom of > > > a particular package in Debian but for some reason they have not > > > yet led to it being removed from the archive? > > > I agree that this is an importa

Re: DFSG FAQ (draft)

2003-07-16 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
> > Q. How can I find out if there are known doubts about the freedom of > > a particular package in Debian but for some reason they have not > > yet led to it being removed from the archive? > I agree that this is an important Q&A to have. This is arguably covered in the answer to "what

Re: DFSG FAQ (draft)

2003-07-16 Thread Joe Moore
Henning Makholm said: > [1] Perhaps then there should also be a follow-up question along the > lines of > > Q. How can I find out if there are known doubts about the freedom of > a particular package in Debian but for some reason they have not > yet led to it being removed from the archive

Re: Transfer of copyright on death

2003-07-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If it turns out that the dead author made no provision for copyrights > in his will and asked his property to be shared out among several > people, or given to a charity, then finding and contacting the heir(s) > might be very difficult. There al