Ben Finney writes ("Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?"):
> Surely a team responsible for a large code base also must – to avoid
> self-delusion – confront the need to know, with confidence that comes
> >from standard, verifiable documentation, the provenance of works from
> which their code base is derived.Nowadays this is mostly done with version control, Signed-off-by lines in commit messages, and so on. People don't generally systematically update in-file copyright messages. Maybe the right answer is to paste the output of git-log | grep '^Signed-off-by' into debian/copyright ? Ian. -- Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> These opinions are my own. If I emailed you from an address @fyvzl.net or @evade.org.uk, that is a private address which bypasses my fierce spamfilter.
