Release Notes: license clarification
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".
Greetings from the Argentine.
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