Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Ben Finney writes ("Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?"):
> Surely a team responsible for a large code base also must – to avoid
> self-delusion – confront the need to know, with confidence that comes
> >from standard, verifiable documentation, the provenance of works from
> which their code base is derived.

Nowadays this is mostly done with version control, Signed-off-by lines
in commit messages, and so on.  People don't generally systematically
update in-file copyright messages.

Maybe the right answer is to paste the output of
  git-log | grep '^Signed-off-by'
into debian/copyright ?

Ian.

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