Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 6:33 AM, Charles Plessy wrote:
>> I share the same feeling and in some of my latest packages, I simply >> make no mention of copyright for my contributions, so that they are >> distributed under the same terms as the whole. > It sounds like you are confusing copyright holders with license grants? > It appears that you are intentionally creating a situation where the > copyright information is incorrect? There's no real legal requirement to list the copyright holders, and the copyright information for nearly all open source projects that don't do copyright assignment is probably at least partially incorrect. (Few projects add copyright statements for every non-trivial patch that they merge, mostly because there's no real point.) But it is certainly true that, in that situation, Charles does retain copyright. He is, however, avoiding placing any further requirements on people distributing his work by not adding to the copyright statement that has to be reproduced (with some licenses, not all). I personally add my own copyright statement and license because I like to be explicit, but assuming that work without a specific license is distributed under the same license as the larger work is ubiquitous in the open source world. So it's not really creating any new problem. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87zjzdndpk....@windlord.stanford.edu