Osamu Aoki <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 01:56:21AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> The copyright years in /usr/share/doc/getmail4/copyright are incorrect >> (not up-to-date). I have reported bug 743161[*] about that, but it has >> been closed because upstream doesn't care. This means that some time >> in the future, people could think that some code has fallen into the >> public domain, while this is actually not true. One may also wonder >> whether new code is distributed in the same license (one could >> interpret the lack of copyright notice update as unspecified license >> for the new code). > > Upstream considers this is good enough and 1 year is nothing to fuss > about. See http://marc.info/?l=getmail&m=131805611901165&w=2 > | Neither. I update that when I happen to notice another year has gone by > | (getmail is more than a decade old at this point) -- but it's not > | important to keep it current. Having that year out-of-date has no legal > | effect under the Berne copyright convention. > > Thus, I do not think this is a bug.
The information is still misleading to end-users. This makes it a minor bug. But it is still a bug. Since upstream is not willing to fix it, Debian can. If Vincent is willing to do all of the work of preparing a correct patch, I do not see a good reason to refuse to apply the patch. Cheers, Walter Landry [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
