Re: Is Packaging Copyrightable

On 2026-02-02 11:01, Soren Stoutner wrote:
> When I consider the hours and hours and hours it often takes to get the 
> contents of debian/* into good shape for proper packaging, I think it is 
> impossible to argue that so little effort is required, or that Debian 
> packaging is such an obvious task, or that the results are just a set of 
> default values that don’t represent any actual labor.  That fact that Debian 
> packaging done well requires so much effort, and that it takes so long for new 
> packagers to become good at it, is a strong indication that it is 
> copyrightable.

That. If Debian package were so trivial, that it can't even be
copyrighted, we can go out and party instead.