Beaucoup de monde a travaillé à finir DEP 5. Je trouve que le blog de Lars ne montre pas assez l'aspect collectif du processus.

Si l'on regarde dans le texte de la spécification, on y trouve:

The following alphabetical list is incomplete; please suggest missing people:
Russ Allbery, Ben Finney, Sam Hocevar, Steve Langasek, Charles Plessy, Noah
Slater, Jonas Smedegaard, Lars Wirzenius.

Le journal des changements de la charte Debian mentionne:

  * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
    This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
    3.9.3.0 release.  Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
    Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
    package.  (Closes: #609160)

 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>  Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700

et

debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Russ Allbery ]
  * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
    DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
    in debian-devel and debian-project.  Revise for clarity, to add more
    examples, and to update the GFDL license versions.  Thanks, Steve
    Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
    (Closes: #658209, #648387)

Pour ma part, je suis très reconnaissant à Bill Alombert d'avoir enregistré le document dans le dépôt Git, ce qui a mis fin aux débats.