Re: Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification
W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Somehow Luk managed to make me say "OK, I'll collect the release
> notes" for lenny. That's DebConf before the first coffee. At
> this moment I was not aware of the license issue: There is
> currently no license. The practical impact is probably small,
> but I really want to solve the issue now. The bug report is open
> for almost three years now. I talked also to Steve, who is one
> of the main authors of the release notes and aware of the issue.
>
> I ask hereby - and in private mails following this one - all
> authors of the release notes to place their contribution to the
> release notes under the GNU General Public license (version 2 or
> higher) by an GPG-signed e-mail to
> debian-doc@lists.debian.org and/or 332782@bugs.debian.org. Many
> thanks for your collaboration.
>
> If I cannot get positive answers within, hm, let's say three
> weeks, from most main authors, I'll remove all text and start
> the release notes from scratch :~(
>
> Authors mentioned in the release notes:
>
> Josip Rodin (joy)
> Bob Hilliard (hilliard)
> Adam Di Carlo (aph)
> Anne Bezemer (is this J.A.Bezemer@opensourcepartners.nl and/or
> costar.at.panic.et.tudelft.nl?)
> Rob Bradford (robster)
> Frans Pop (fjp)
> Andreas Barth (aba)
> Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peñ(jfs)
> Steve Langasek (vorlon)
>
> The old CVS mentions further:
>
> barbier (Denis Barbier)
> djpig (Frank Lichtenheld)
> ender (David Martínez
> fbothamy (probably frederic.bothamy@free.fr)
> jseidel (Jens? Seidel)
> liling (Ling Li?)
> pmachard (Pierre Machard)
> spaillar (Simon Paillard?)
> tale (Tapio Lehtonen)
> xerakko (Miguel Gea Milvaques)
>
> * What about translations? We start from scratch, but
> translators can use their own translations and re-commit under
> the terms of GPL.
>
> * What about other contributors? So far, I could not find other
> contributor names in the logs (i.e. other than translations).
> If you find or know something, please "follow-up".
I guess bug submitters and/or patch providers would also count as
contributor?
Cheers
Luk
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