Sean Whitton
2024-Dec-10 02:51 UTC
[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#1089621: xen: Invalid copyright years "2022-present"
Source: xen
Version: 4.17.3+36-g54dacb5c02-1
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.3, 4.5, 12.5
X-Debbugs-CC: ftpmaster at debian.org
Dear maintainer,
Copyright 2022-present Keir Fraser and/or many others"
is not a valid copyright claim. Copyright is always time-limited, so it
simply does not make sense to say "-present".
Also, our copyright format is already implicitly "and/or" for names
under a given stanza, so it should be just "and", I think.
If you're reproducing this from the upstream sources because that's
what they typed and the GPL requires you to reproduce copyright claims,
then please take this up with them.
If this is something that someone came up with for Debian purposes,
please use
Copyright: 2002-2024 Keir Fraser and many others
Thanks.
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Sean Whitton