On 2008-08-24 12:19, Steve Langasek wrote: > I was a release note editor for the last release only; my contributions are > far less than those of many others on that list, it's not really fair to > call me a "main" author...
OK. > Legally, there is no reason to require GPG-signed email; and there's no > guarantee that everyone who has contributed to the notes has a GPG key at > all. Please don't set the bar higher than necessary. OK, I'll ask for agreement to GPL only and not ask for GPG signature. > If we get license approval, I don't see any reason to start from scratch. OK. > From <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332782#87>, we have > these contributors not listed in your mail: > > - Daniel Nylander Swedish translation. > - Roberto C. Sánchez Fix of typos and corrections of bad English. > - Clytie Siddall Vietnamese translation, of course, and typo fixes. > - Frederik Schueler Obsolete AMD64 information. We don't need to care. > - Adeodato Simó Some bits about Python, which are not in the release notes anymore. We don't need to care. > - Nobuhiro IMAI TAKEI Nobumitsu > - Luk Claes No comment, as Luk is one of the driving forces of this effort. > - Andrea Mennucci About Zope/Plone update. We need to know if the text still holds for lenny, anyway. > - Martin Michlmayr ARM, MIPS and friends. > - Osamu Aoki Is this the stuff about screen etc.? > - Jordà Polo Catalan translation? Or more? > I think we need to at least make an effort to get a sign-off from all these > "major" contributors as part of a GPLv2 licensing, and if they can't be > reached we should drop/replace their contributions. OK. It's in the nature of release notes, that many contributions are already removed from the text since long. > FWIW, 1585 lines of the current release notes are traceable, unmodified, to > joy's initial import in 2003 - I really don't know how to trace back any > further without a *lot* of work, we should probably assume for now that the > copyright on those contents is held by the people listed as release notes > editors for pre-sarge... If somebody really contributed significantly to the release notes and this contribution is really still part of the future lenny release notes and the contributor does not agree to put their work under GPL2+, they may just ask to remove their contribution and I will immediately do so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]