> I'd hardly call it plagiarism. Your copyright is, by will of our own > policy and to abide by authors wishes, distributed with the tools in > /usr/share/doc/<pkg>/copyright.
Ah.. I guess Hans is referring to the author list in README? The package maintainer probably looked at COPYING (contains GPL, as usual) and AUTHORS (an empty file) and didn't realize that README was actually an important addendum to the license and omitted the file from the package by mistake. To prevent such problems in the future, perhaps the ReiserFS project could move the deviations from GPL from README to the beginning of COPYING and move the author list to AUTHORS? Additionally, it might be a good idea to provide a shoreter list of authors in addition to the detailed one for easier copying to 'standard copyright files' like 'copying' in Debian. - Jarno
