Quoting Ian Jackson (2017-12-19 14:06:14)
> 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 ?
Those are authors, which might be copyright holders but possibly not.
Like code lacking copyright might be freely licensed but possibly not.
- Jonas
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