Package: dracut
Version: 050+31-1
Severity: serious

I noticed that this package appears to have some issues with debian/copyright.

The first copyright paragraph is missing 'Files: *'.

There is a duplicate 'debian/*' paragraph (merge the copyright holders).

An alternate copyright is mentioned in modules.d/90lvm/*.rules. (note: RH
employee) Although it's nice you noticed the extra Redhat copyright mentioned in
install/dracut-install.c, it's worth noting that this name shows up on many
others.


This project appears to have been driven primarily by Harald, but sponsored (on
the clock) by Redhat. Per US law (where RH is based), Red Hat, Inc. holds the
legal copyright to most of the source presented here. The extra names wouldn't
hold up in court.


Please consider the following proposal.

Files: *
Copyright:
  2008-2012, Red Hat, Inc.
  2012, Harald Hoyer <har...@redhat.com>
  2008, Jeremy Katz <ka...@redhat.com>
License: GPL-2+

Files: debian/*
Copyright:
  2009, Philippe Seewer <philippe.see...@bfh.ch>
  2011-2020 Thomas Lange <la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de>
License: GPL-2+

Files:
  install/hashmap.* install/log.*
  install/macro.h install/util.*
Copyright: 2010 Lennart Poettering
License: LGPL-2.1+

License: GPL-2+
  [...]



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