On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 14:09 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 10/22/2013 04:55 AM, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > Talk to the Trove developers and politely ask them whether the copyright > > notices in their code reflects what they see as the reality. > > > > I'm sure it would help them if you pointed out to them some significant > > chunks of code from the commit history which don't appear to have been > > written by a HP employee. > > I did this already. Though if I raised the topic in this list (as > opposed to contact the Trove maintainers privately), this was for a > broader scope, to make sure it doesn't happen again and again. > > > Simply adding a Rackspace copyright notice to a file or two which has > > had a significant contribution by someone from Rackspace would be enough > > to resolve your concerns completely. > > But how to make sure that there's no *other* copyright holders, and that > my debian/copyright is right? Currently, there's no way...
I've never seen a project where copyright headers weren't occasionally missing some copyright holders. I suspect Debian has managed just fine with those projects and can manage just fine with OpenStack's copyright headers too. Mark. _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
