Damyan Ivanov wrote:
Show quoted text> Hi,
Hello Damyan,
Show quoted text> I am a member of Debian Perl Group -- a team for maintaining Perl
> module
> packages in Debian. While preparing the package of the 0.21 release, I
> noticed that presently, there is no information about Sys-Syslog's
> copyright holders in the docs (or anywhere I looked for it).
>
> The only related thing is the license (same as Perl), but this is not
> enough.
I'll restate here what I already explained to Dominique Dumont in a
private message.
First, this is not *my* module: it's a module from the Perl core,
which was dual-lifed in december 2005 in order to address a security
hole, and I was picked up to be its happy maintainer. So I maintain
the module since then, but parts of the code dates back from 1990.
The authors who contributed code to this module are listed, in
chronological order, in the "AUTHORS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS" section of
the documentation, the first ones being Tom Christiansen and Larry
Wall.. Looking at the source in Perl 4, it seems to have been
originally written by Tom Christiansen.
So, I'm not sure what is the correct thing to do here:
- put one Copyright line with "Larry Wall and others", as it's the
case in Perl's README
- put one Copyright line with "Tom Christiansen and others", as Tom
is the first author
- put a bunch of Copyright lines with years and authors as it's the
case in Net::Pcap[1], except knowing how to attribute the years to
authors won't be trivial (except for the last two years)
Not being the original author, I'll send a mail to the Perl 5 Porters
with Cc: to the Perl Foundation, as they are the best people to
answer such a question.
I'll keep you informed as soon as I have an answer by completing this
ticket.
By the way, thanks for packaging Sys::Syslog (and in my case, I can
assure that I don't plan to sue Debian ;-)
[1]
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Pcap/Pcap.pm#COPYRIGHT
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