Hi, On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 06:51:48AM +1000, Riley Baird wrote: > > The upstream of the getmail writes this as his original code without > > making copyright assignment to FSF. He is the licensor and not the > > licensee. Thus, he is not bound by the quoted GPL2 license terms at > > all. > > Agreed. > > > This is exactly the reason why I as the licensee must not change the > > upstream provided "copyright notice". > > Ah, okay. Could you at least change the debian copyright file? You're > not changing the notice there; you're making a new one.
No. Please read the Debian Policy: 12.5 Copyright information https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s-copyrightfile | Every package must be accompanied by a verbatim copy of its copyright | information and distribution license in the file | /usr/share/doc/package/copyright. If you make a *change*, then it is not a *verbatim* copy any more. What I can make is to add a comment documenting the situation. This can be requested as wishlist feature request bug. I do not see the value of such action and I will mark such request as wontfix. Please seriously think about the VALUE. Regards, Osamu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140503151024.GA24050@goofy
