On ke, 2008-02-20 at 10:53 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > OTOH, it complains about this too (from installation-guide):
> > The Installation Guide is copyright 1996 Bruce Perens; 1996, 1997 Sven
> > Rudolph;
> > 1998 Igor Grobman, James Treacy; 1998-2002 Adam Di Carlo; 2003 Chris
> > Tillman;
> > 2004-2007 by the Debian Installer team, and by other contributors. It is
> > licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL, version 2.
> >
> > This _does_ use the word "copyright", just not capitalized. Or is the
> > capital
> > required too in most parts of the world?
>
> That's just a bug. It will be fixed in the next release. Sorry about
> that.
Well, for example the U.S. Copyright Office specifies:
The symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word
“Copyright,” or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and
-- http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html
so I would assume it needs to be capitalized, and not be part of a
sentence. But I don't think it's essential; it would be a very weird
court that would not interpret the installation guide's notice
correctly.
More important for debian/copyright is, I think, to give it in the same
format(s) as the upstream author does. That's not something lintian can
check.
I declare that I'm finished painting this bikeshed. The door is sticky
and windows are opaque now. Where is the next one?
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