On Oct 20, 2013 11:29 AM, "Robert Collins" <robe...@robertcollins.net> wrote: > > On 20 October 2013 02:35, Monty Taylor <mord...@inaugust.com> wrote: > > > However, even as a strong supporter of accurate license headers, I would > > like to know more about the FTP masters issue. I dialog with them, as > > folks who deal with this issue and its repercutions WAY more than any of > > us might be really nice. > > Debian takes it's responsibilities under copyright law very seriously. > The integrity of the debian/copyright metadata is checked on the first > upload for a package (and basically not thereafter, which is either > convenient or pragmatic or a massive hole in rigour depending on your > point of view. The goal is to ensure that a) the package is in the > right repository in Debian (main vs nonfree) and b) that Debian can > redistribute it and c) that downstreams of Debian who decide to use > the package can confidently do so. Files with differing redistribution > licenses that aren't captured in debian/copyright are an issue for c); > files with different authors and the same redistribution licence > aren't a problem for a/b/c *but* the rules the FTP masters enforce > don't make that discrimination: the debian/copyright file needs to be > a concordance of both copyright holders and copyright license. > > Personally, I think it should really only be a concordance of > copyright licenses, and the holders shouldn't be mentioned, but thats > not the current project view.
http://ftp-master.metadata.debian.org/changelogs//main/l/linux/linux_3.11.5-1_copyright Not even the kernel itself has a complete list of all the copyright owners. best, Joe sent on the go > > -Rob > > -- > Robert Collins <rbtcoll...@hp.com> > Distinguished Technologist > HP Converged Cloud > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-dev mailing list > OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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