Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-21 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 06:51:54PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: It wouldn't make sense to assign copyright to the Debian Project, but it might make sense to assign it to some of our trusted organization, like SPI. I'm myself not aware of mechanisms offered by SPI to allow volunteer

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-21 Thread Ian Jackson
Thomas Koch writes (Copyright assignement for Debian tools?): I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add classes it would be logical to add Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch. Right. But I don't see

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-11 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, February 11, 2013 14:54, Antonio Terceiro wrote: There are several cases where upstream explicitly puts Copyright 2013 The Foo Developers and similar statements. Are they invalid as well? If they are valid, wouldn't Copyright 2013 Debian Project have the similar (if not the same)

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-11 Thread Russ Allbery
Antonio Terceiro terce...@debian.org writes: There are several cases where upstream explicitly puts Copyright 2013 The Foo Developers and similar statements. Are they invalid as well? If they are valid, wouldn't Copyright 2013 Debian Project have the similar (if not the same) meaning? *All*

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-10 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 09:14:12AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: If you are contributing to copyleft projects, it is important to have diverse copyright holders to prevent converting projects to proprietary licenses. FWIW, we are far from having consensus on this aspect in the free software world at

Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Thomas Koch
Hi, I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add classes it would be logical to add Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch. But I don't see any sense in this. I've no interest to be the copyright holder. I'd

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add classes it would be logical to add Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch. But I don't see any

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Brian Gupta
On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add classes it

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 01:00:27PM -0500, Brian Gupta wrote: It may also be worth reaching out to the Software Freedom Conservancy if this turns out to be out of scope for SPI http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/ (If I recall the SFLC helped get them off the ground, and they were founded

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Stefano Zacchiroli lea...@debian.org writes: Thanks Brian. As a matter of fact, I discuss with Bradley (Conservancy's Executive Director) fairly regularly and I've in the past discussed with him the possibilities of benefiting of SF Conservancy services as Debian Project. The problem is that

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Stefano Zacchiroli
On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 11:20:17AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: Doesn't Debian as a whole also have nearly as many assets as all other projects in the Software Freedom Conservancy put together? In terms of reserves, it might be. But in terms of expenses / revenue they're way more active than we

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Thomas Koch a écrit : I've no interest to be the copyright holder. I'd much rather like to write Copyright 2013 The Debian Project. (Actually I'm totally annoyed by anything related to copyright...) Hi Thomas, I share the same feeling and in some

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 10/02/2013 03:14, Paul Wise wrote: My advice would just to put Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch and a DFSG-free license, anything else would be more effort on your part. I've considered using Copyright 2013 Debian Project for the licensing of packaging that's intended to go into Debian. What

Re: Copyright assignement for Debian tools?

2013-02-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Carter (highvoltage) jonat...@ubuntu.com writes: On 10/02/2013 03:14, Paul Wise wrote: My advice would just to put Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch and a DFSG-free license, anything else would be more effort on your part. I've considered using Copyright 2013 Debian Project for the