On 2013-10-19 23:29:28 +0800 (+0800), Thomas Goirand wrote: > Though the Debian FTP masters seems to insist on having correct > copyright holders in debian/copyright, and I am a bit lost after the 2 > rejects I just had.
Well, this is still a fuzzy topic. We have a lot of contributions and know who the authors are, but not necessarily who the copyright holders were on behalf of whom they might have contributed various changes (only that the copyright holders authorized them to contribute this work under a specific license, because the authors signed agreements to this effect). It would almost certainly take a policy decision by the technical committee if we wanted to start requiring all authors of new changes to add/update copyright statements accurately on every file they touch, and there is quite probably no chance at all we can precisely nail down historical copyright holder data for previous changes already merged. > The licensing has nothing to do with copyright holders. These are 2 > different topics, please don't mix them in. :) [...] OH! But you couldn't be more wrong. Licensing has everything to do with copyright holders in this case, because what we're applying is a *copyright license*. ;) -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
