Re: debian/watch for gitorious
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:40 AM, Adam Borowski wrote:
> This might be the case only if that information has any semblance of
> validity. That's possible pretty much only for tiny projects with one or at
> most few contributors. In anything worth looking at, a single file will be
> typically edited by tens of contributors at least, with changes touching
> many files at once.
Not all of these changes will be eligible for copyright protection.
> If you really need to know how a piece of code ended up in the project, just
> use version control. It's reliable and complete, at least for modern
> version control systems. Version control is not centered on legal issues,
> but in the worst case it will tell you at least who checked something in.
Version control data doesn't end up in tarballs so it is not useful
for filling out debian/copyright.
Version control data is orthogonal to who owns copyright, just because
someone is the author or committer of some code doesn't mean that they
are the copyright holder (think work for hire, copyright transfer,
etc).
--
bye,
pabs
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