Re: live-build copyright notices
I think, I may be wrong so am happy to be corrected if I am, it is
customary in Linux to acknowledge copyright of previous authors. Let's
be frank and admit that if it wasn't for Daniel Live Build probably
wouldn't have existed in the 1st place. I think removing
acknowledgement of Daniel's copyright status while he was the primary
author of the software would be nearly, but not quite, as bad as the
way in which some people launched into an attempted take over of the
live build name. Interestingly I'm not even sure if those people are
involved in Debian Live at all anymore, not having heard a peep out of
them with regards to Live Wrapper and its development for a very long
time.
I think, as a mark of respect to Daniel, the best thing the Debian
community could do is leave Daniel's name on the copyright notice for
the time he was the lead, if not the only, developer working on Live
Build.
On 10/03/2020, jnqnfe@gmail.com <jnqnfe@gmail.com> wrote:
> since Daniel Baumann abandoned the live-build project a few years ago,
> should the copyright notices not now be updated to reflect this?, i.e.
>
> ```
> ## Copyright (C) 2016 The Debian Live team <
> debian-live@lists.debian.org>
> ## Copyright (C) 2006-2015 Daniel Baumann <mail@daniel-baumann.ch>
> ```
>
> since effectively his copyright ownership covers up to the point where
> he abandoned it and the live-team owns the versions with changes that
> have been applied since.
>
> similarly the authorship in the man pages.
>
> should the notices in the files not also include references to which
> license actually applies?
>
> would you be open to an MR to address this if my doing the work helps?
>
> Lyndon
>
>
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