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On Friday, January 15, 2016, Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> wrote: > This isn't the first time I'm calling for it. Let's hope this time, I'll > be heard. > > Randomly, contributors put their company names into source code. When > they do, then effectively, this tells that a given source file copyright > holder is whatever is claimed, even though someone from another company > may have patched it. > > As a result, we have a huge mess. It's impossible for me, as a package > maintainer, to accurately set the copyright holder names in the > debian/copyright file, which is a required by the Debian FTP masters. > > I see 2 ways forward: > 1/ Require everyone to give-up copyright holding, and give it to the > OpenStack Foundation. > 2/ Maintain a copyright-holder file in each project. > > The later is needed if we want to do things correctly. Leaving the > possibility for everyone to just write (c) MyCompany LLC randomly in the > source code doesn't cut it. Expecting that a package maintainer should > double-guess copyright holding just by reading the email addresses of > "git log" output doesn't work either. > > Please remember that a copyright holder has nothing to do with the > license, neither with the author of some code. So please do *not* take > over this thread, and discuss authorship or licensing. > > Whatever we choose, I think we should ban having copyright holding text > within our source code. While licensing is a good idea, as it is > accurate, the copyright holding information isn't and it's just > missleading. > > If I was the only person to choose, I'd say let's go for 1/, but > probably managers of every company wont agree. > > Some thoughts anyone? > > Cheers, > > Thomas Goirand (zigo) > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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