Quoting Gioele Barabucci (2015-11-02 19:20:10) > Am 02.11.2015 um 09:06 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: >> Am Sonntag, den 01.11.2015, 20:51 +0100 schrieb Gioele Barabucci: >>> claimed to be Karolina Lach on both Google Fonts (official release >>> website) and Sorkin Type's website. However the licence and the rest >>> of the documentation say that the font is (c) Sorkin Type. For this >>> reason I wrote the name of the designer in the package description >>> and I have left the licence text untouched. Is this the correct way >>> to go? >> >> as Jonas already pointed out, the Author and the Copyright Holder of >> a work are not necessarily identical. There are e.g. some GNU >> projects that require copyright assignment from code authors. The >> relevant part, however, is the Copyright, whereas the Authorship is >> merely a nice extra information (unless the license requires to >> explicitely credit the Authors). > > Thank you for the clarification. Given that I have not found a > "Author" field, I suppose that what I have done is all one can do. Apart from crediting the author in long description field which I find nice that you've done, even if unneeded for legal or technical reasons, there's one practical improvement you might do with the author info: debian/copyright should preferrably contain the preferred way to get in touch with upstream. For machine-readable format of that file, it is the "Upstream-Contact:" paragraph of the topmost section. If the project explicitly mentions their preferred way(s) of contact then obciously list that, else if project has an issue tracker I suggest listing that, but as a last resort what I commonly do is try locate the email address (or failing that some Homepage) of the original author to list in that paragraph. Regards, - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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