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Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification



Hi,

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:12:11AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> On 2008-08-24 20:36, Luk Claes wrote:
> > I guess bug submitters and/or patch providers would also count as
> > contributor?
> 
> Yes. There are 16 bugs with a "patch" tag: 
> 
> #404891 - patch by Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
> #339081, #363056 - Japanese translation fixes by Kobayashi Noritada
>   <nori1@dolphin.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, IMHO minor, not copyrightable
> #402910, #413409 - patches by Luk ;~)
> #401317 - patch by Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>
> #404884 - patch by Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de>
> #415618 - patch by Mark Brown <broonie@debian.org>
> #417769 - patch by Alexander Schmehl <alex@melusine.alphascorpii.net>
> #401096 - patch by Miguel Gea Milvaques <xerakko@debian.org>
> #329361 - patch by Joost van Baal <joostvb-20050921-3@mdcc.cx>
> #363468 - patch by Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
> #397296 - many hints by Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>
> #417310 - patch by Martin Zobel-Helas <zobel@ftbfs.de>
> #419908, #435075 - Russian translation by Yuri Kozlov <kozlov.y@gmail.com>

Yes, go fot GPLv2+

For small contribution like mine, I do not think you need license
because by submitting in this way via Debian system, we pre-approved to
Debian to use it as they wish.  It is practically copyright assigment to
debian, or technically, SPI.

Osamu

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