Control: tag -1 pending On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 18:04:42 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> debian/copyright in Mesa contains the following language: > > When contributing to the Mesa project you must agree to relinquish your > work to the holder of the copyright for the particular component you're > contributing to. That is, you can't put your own copyright on the code, > unless it's a modular piece that can be omitted from Mesa (like a new > device driver). If for example, you contribute a bug fix to Mesa's > texture mapping code, your code will become a part of the body of work > which is copyrighted by Brian Paul and licensed by the above terms. > > However, this language no longer exists upstream; it was removed in > b7c727e5006e26be3f70396030aab7512498f441 (August 2005!) and replaced by > > When contributing to the Mesa project you must agree to the licensing terms > of the component to which you're contributing. > The following section lists the primary comonents of the Mesa distribution > and their respective licenses. > > It recently caused me some headache, so it would be nice to see it updated > with the correct copy. > Thanks for the report. I've changed it in http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/lib/mesa.git/commit/?id=6fc4873157a1a3a8b4439bbcb2fc552039a7b8fb Hopefully that's less wrong. Cheers, Julien
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