On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 01:28:09AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20 2009, Mike O'Connor wrote: > > >> > >> Why is this list needed? > > > > Often the license requires it. For instance the BSD license says, > > "Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright". > > > I think it means what is says. The *ABOVE* copyright notice must > be reproduced. That does not mean you have to hunt down every person > with a Signed-Off-By header in the log, or every person who made an > more than 10 line (non-trivial) patch submission to the project (and > yes, most of these people also hold copyright -- how are you gonna find > out all such names?) >
Yes, Manoj, thanks for the clarification. I didn't intend to imply that I believed that this statement in the license is a requirement to hunt down all contributors. I agree that it rather clearly indicates "ABOVE" copyright statements. I meant to point out to Joss, who was seeming to imply that copyright notices shouldn't be required at all in debian/copyright, that there are clear cases when they are required. stew
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