On 05/05/2015 03:08 PM, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote: > Then the first step is to ask everyone you (we?) know to allow the > relicensing of the whole cc65. This means all contributors of the code > who ever changed something in it, even a single character. Do others > like John R. Dunning or Ullrich von Bassewitz may have a full commit > history and/or list of the contributors over the years?
You can get a list: $ git clone g...@github.com:cc65/cc65.git $ cd cc65 $ git log --all --format='%aN <%cE>' | sort -u > I'm _not_ a lawyer, but do we really need to reach everyone? Would it > be enough to ask only people who added their copyright messages in the > top of the files? I don't know if others can be counted as they left > the copyright to the actual source maintainer or not. Exactly my point. If you _claim_ to have made a contribution but you are credited nowhere and also don't show up in the commit history, then there is absolute no way for you to prove your authorship and hence it's pretty safe to just ask who is actually listed. > At least I don't > see any sign that they claim any copyright of their contributions. The > LICENSE file states only the previous two coders have the copyright. At least in Germany, you automatically obtain the copyright you made for any contribution you made. So, in order to be absolutely super correct, everyone would need to be added to the LICENSE file even now as otherwise the LICENSE file would be incomplete and any of the contributors could actually complain. On the other hand, I don't think that there is anyone who insists on their copyrights without having asked for their names to be added to the LICENSE file. So, again. Let's just ask everyone who has committed code according to the above git log. And if we are really super-insisting on the correctness, we can delay the whole process even more by asking debian-legal again. But I don't think that anyone would want this. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5548c53d.9050...@physik.fu-berlin.de
