Bug#806805: debian/copyright contains wrong license (copyright assignment no longer needed)

["Steinar H. Gunderson" <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>]

Source: mesa
Version: 11.0.6-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

debian/copyright in Mesa contains the following language:

  When contributing to the Mesa project you must agree to relinquish your
  work to the holder of the copyright for the particular component you're
  contributing to.  That is, you can't put your own copyright on the code,
  unless it's a modular piece that can be omitted from Mesa (like a new
  device driver).  If for example, you contribute a bug fix to Mesa's
  texture mapping code, your code will become a part of the body of work
  which is copyrighted by Brian Paul and licensed by the above terms.

However, this language no longer exists upstream; it was removed in
b7c727e5006e26be3f70396030aab7512498f441 (August 2005!) and replaced by

  When contributing to the Mesa project you must agree to the licensing terms
  of the component to which you're contributing.
  The following section lists the primary comonents of the Mesa distribution
  and their respective licenses.

It recently caused me some headache, so it would be nice to see it updated
with the correct copy.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (750, 'stable'), (500, 'proposed-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0 (SMP w/40 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)