Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Paul Wise
The Debian Project is not a legal entity so you can't assign copyright to it. See the replies about SPI/FSF/etc though. If you are contributing to copyleft projects, it is important to have diverse copyright holders to prevent converting projects to proprietary licenses. The package you are contri

Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add classes it would be logical to add "Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch". But I don't see any sense in this. I've no interest to be the copyright holder. I'

Re: more cleanup in maven-repo-helper

2013-02-09 Thread Ludovic Claude
Hello Thomas, Good luck for your interview. If you commit your changes tomorrow night, I will give you my feedback. Ludovic On 02/08/2013 09:05 PM, Thomas Koch wrote: Hi Ludovic and other debian-java hackers, in preparation for a java based phone interview (google) on monday, I had to do so

Bug#698164: marked as done (mandate unique package names in Debian Java policy)

2013-02-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sat, 09 Feb 2013 11:18:14 +0100 with message-id <51162266.1030...@zorglub.s.bawue.de> and subject line Re: Bug#698164: Info received (Bug#698164: mandate unique package names in Debian Java policy) has caused the Debian Bug report #698164, regarding mandate unique package names