[Debian-med-packaging] rtax copyright information

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 11:35:06PM +0100, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
> >Do you agree that this patch will be OK:
> 
> this seems to be wrong as well.
> The sources of ./rtax and ./scripts/rtaxSearch.pl clearly say that
> the copyright holder are the "Regents of the University of
> California" (and I guess that is true for the rest of the software
> as well). The three authors are "just" the authors so they don't
> need to appear in the copyright file.
> I don't have any idea whether this is true, but I can imagine that
> he who gave the money also has all rights.

Hmmm, I'm not a copyright expert but as far as I know the authors who
actually *wrote* the code should be mentioned in any case in the
copyright statement.  This is not influenced by the fact who payed
them for their work.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

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