Quoting Ian Jackson (2017-12-19 14:06:14) > Ben Finney writes ("Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?"): > > Surely a team responsible for a large code base also must – to avoid > > self-delusion – confront the need to know, with confidence that comes > > >from standard, verifiable documentation, the provenance of works from > > which their code base is derived. > > Nowadays this is mostly done with version control, Signed-off-by lines > in commit messages, and so on. People don't generally systematically > update in-file copyright messages. > > Maybe the right answer is to paste the output of > git-log | grep '^Signed-off-by' > into debian/copyright ?
Those are authors, which might be copyright holders but possibly not. Like code lacking copyright might be freely licensed but possibly not. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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