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Bug#332782: Please explain the etch-ignore tag



On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:47:50AM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:02:00PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> > Thank you for agreeing to the licensing[1], could you please tell me the
> > relevant years, name and (optional) e-mail address, for the copyright
> > notice?

> Hmm... as for names and e-mail addreses I think we need to dig that
> information first. Years would be 1999-2007, they seem to have been first
> written for slink (http://www.es.debian.org/releases/slink/#release-notes).
> The DDP  CVS only has the Release Notes since woody (january 2003),
> previously they Release Notes resided in the boot-floppies' CVS.

FWIW, I think his question was about what years you personally have
copyright over the work.

For my part (now that I seem to have been made an editor and have to do this
too, pff), I'm fine to have any of my contributions to the release notes
distributed under the GPL v2.  My copyright information is:

 Copyright 2007 Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

> - Adeodato Simón

Adeodato Simó

> - Luk Cleas

Luk Claes

> - A. Mennucc

proper name is "Andrea Mennucci", I never understood where that 'i'
disappeared to..

> - Jordi Polo

Jordà Polo

> a) Their contributions might not be present in the current RN anymore

'cvs annotate' should help with this, when cross-referenced with commit
logs.  I can help script something up to check all of this, but not until
after etch is out.

> b) Some of the patches they provided might be just "typo fixes" and not
> actual text. I don't believe those grant one "co-author" status for a
> document.

True.

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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