On 20 October 2013 02:35, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: > However, even as a strong supporter of accurate license headers, I would > like to know more about the FTP masters issue. I dialog with them, as > folks who deal with this issue and its repercutions WAY more than any of > us might be really nice.
Debian takes it's responsibilities under copyright law very seriously. The integrity of the debian/copyright metadata is checked on the first upload for a package (and basically not thereafter, which is either convenient or pragmatic or a massive hole in rigour depending on your point of view. The goal is to ensure that a) the package is in the right repository in Debian (main vs nonfree) and b) that Debian can redistribute it and c) that downstreams of Debian who decide to use the package can confidently do so. Files with differing redistribution licenses that aren't captured in debian/copyright are an issue for c); files with different authors and the same redistribution licence aren't a problem for a/b/c *but* the rules the FTP masters enforce don't make that discrimination: the debian/copyright file needs to be a concordance of both copyright holders and copyright license. Personally, I think it should really only be a concordance of copyright licenses, and the holders shouldn't be mentioned, but thats not the current project view. -Rob -- Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> Distinguished Technologist HP Converged Cloud _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
