Re: Release Notes: license clarification
On 2008-08-24 12:19, Steve Langasek wrote:
> I was a release note editor for the last release only; my contributions are
> far less than those of many others on that list, it's not really fair to
> call me a "main" author...
OK.
> Legally, there is no reason to require GPG-signed email; and there's no
> guarantee that everyone who has contributed to the notes has a GPG key at
> all. Please don't set the bar higher than necessary.
OK, I'll ask for agreement to GPL only and not ask for GPG signature.
> If we get license approval, I don't see any reason to start from scratch.
OK.
> From <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332782#87>, we have
> these contributors not listed in your mail:
>
> - Daniel Nylander
Swedish translation.
> - Roberto C. Sánchez
Fix of typos and corrections of bad English.
> - Clytie Siddall
Vietnamese translation, of course, and typo fixes.
> - Frederik Schueler
Obsolete AMD64 information. We don't need to care.
> - Adeodato Simó
Some bits about Python, which are not in the release notes
anymore. We don't need to care.
> - Nobuhiro IMAI
TAKEI Nobumitsu
> - Luk Claes
No comment, as Luk is one of the driving forces of this effort.
> - Andrea Mennucci
About Zope/Plone update. We need to know if the text still holds
for lenny, anyway.
> - Martin Michlmayr
ARM, MIPS and friends.
> - Osamu Aoki
Is this the stuff about screen etc.?
> - Jordà Polo
Catalan translation? Or more?
> I think we need to at least make an effort to get a sign-off from all these
> "major" contributors as part of a GPLv2 licensing, and if they can't be
> reached we should drop/replace their contributions.
OK. It's in the nature of release notes, that many contributions
are already removed from the text since long.
> FWIW, 1585 lines of the current release notes are traceable, unmodified, to
> joy's initial import in 2003 - I really don't know how to trace back any
> further without a *lot* of work, we should probably assume for now that the
> copyright on those contents is held by the people listed as release notes
> editors for pre-sarge...
If somebody really contributed significantly to the release
notes and this contribution is really still part of the future
lenny release notes and the contributor does not agree to put
their work under GPL2+, they may just ask to remove their
contribution and I will immediately do so.
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