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



Control: tag -1 pending

On Tue, Dec  1, 2015 at 18:04:42 +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:

> 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.
> 
Thanks for the report.  I've changed it in
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-xorg/lib/mesa.git/commit/?id=6fc4873157a1a3a8b4439bbcb2fc552039a7b8fb

Hopefully that's less wrong.

Cheers,
Julien

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