warzone2100-music-community_1.0-2_amd64.changes REJECTED

Thomas Viehmann tv at beamnet.de
Fri Dec 5 08:46:34 UTC 2008


On 2008-12-05 03:03:31.00 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 20:09 +0000, Thomas Viehmann wrote:
> > would you terribly mind getting a proper copyright assertion
> > from the authors and including it (i.e. Copyright YYYY Someone)?
> > Somehow it feels itchy not to have that.

> Fair enough. I'll try but I don't think I will be successful.

> BTW, the package was accepted before (under the name warzone2100-music).

If my interpretation of the US copyright office's material on this[1]
> The name of the owner of copyright in the work, or an abbreviation 
> by which the name can be recognized, or a generally known alternative
> designation of the owner.
is correct, copyright assertions do not necessarily need a real name but
a pseudonym known within the game's development community will suffice.

That said, I could be overly cautious here and will be happy to be
overridden if I am. If you conclude that you cannot reasonably get such
an assertion and that it should not be necessary, please do mail the ftp
team again and we'll take another look.

Kind regards

T.

1. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html



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