Re: Sponsorship requirements and copyright files
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:33:32PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Now, some of the objections you have heard is because of the
> hard line you have been taking in this discussion about looking for
> and adding copyright holders is not, as far as I can see, reflected in
> current policy.
>
> And telling people they are doing a bad job and need to either
> shape up or change policy does not actually seem to be corroborated by
> policy, unless I am missing chunks.
Yeah, I apologise for this. This had been my understanding. Sorry.
> BTW, to your list of solutions, I can add another one:
> + realize this is busy work with little value in the common case, and
> prefer to spend time otherwise improving the package.
On the other hand, I think this needs to be clarified.
I only maintain a small number of packages, but even then, I have regularly
found files contained within those packages which were included for various
reasons by upstream under a different license. In the case of planet-venus, I
remove a not insignificant number of these for the DFSG. Clearly, some amount of
checking each file is a good thing, so why not be explicit about what is
required of a developer for this?
Best,
--
Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
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