[Pkg-octave-devel] Copyright for Packaging

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail at gmail.com> [2008-03-05 07:24]:

> can we please accept an informal policy that we set the copyright holder
> for the packaging to the DOG? Otherwise, everytime one edits the
> packaging files, one has to check if one's name is already in
> debian/copyright.

I have thought about this some days ago.  I wonder whether we can do this
legally.  I mean, the DOG is not an institution or organization like the
FSF, so we might be bound to using real person names.

What about asking this in debian-legal?

-- 
Rafael