Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Willi Mann wrote: Can you explain to me what the consequences of an imcomplete list of copyright holders would be? It should make it easier for me to argue upstream. The most important one is that not having all of the copyright holders represented means that we don't

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Don Armstrong wrote: On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Willi Mann wrote: Can you explain to me what the consequences of an imcomplete list of copyright holders would be? It should make it easier for me to argue upstream. The most important one is that not having all of the copyright holders represented

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Michael Below
Am Do 21 Feb 2008 10:25:01 CET schrieb Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IMHO the patches sent to a upstream author which doesn't patch the original copyright (adding a name or a copyright line) should be interpreted as the above case. IMHO the author implicit acknowledges that the

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread John Halton
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Michael Below [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Do 21 Feb 2008 10:25:01 CET schrieb Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IMHO the patches sent to a upstream author which doesn't patch the original copyright (adding a name or a copyright line) should be

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Willi Mann
The most important one is that not having all of the copyright holders represented means that we don't actually know what terms we are able to distribute the final work. A component of a work which is unlicenced makes the entire work undistributable. I don't understand why this is solved by

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Ben Finney
Please preserve attribution lines for material that you quote, so we can see who wrote what at each level. Willi Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The default suggestion would be for you (or people you can trust to do the work) to contact those further upstream who could tell you about the

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Don Armstrong
NB: If you can keep attribution intact in the future, that would help a lot. On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Willi Mann wrote: The most important one is that not having all of the copyright holders represented means that we don't actually know what terms we are able to distribute the final work. A

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-21 Thread Joe Smith
John Halton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Michael Below [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Do 21 Feb 2008 10:25:01 CET schrieb Giacomo A. Catenazzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: IMHO the patches sent to a upstream author which doesn't patch

logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-20 Thread Willi Mann
Hi! The package logwatch [1] I maintain contains no sane list of copyright holders. The file License in the upstream package contains the line Copyright (c) 2007 Kirk Bauer but this is obviously incomplete because the upstream package contains some code that I am copyright holder of. And there

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-20 Thread Ben Finney
Willi Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For the next upload, I'd like to get this right. Can anybody tell me what I should do to get this right, at least to meet our standards for copyright files? What should I suggest to upstream to fix the License file? Just saying: Add all copyright holders

Re: logwatch: list of copyright holders

2008-02-20 Thread Willi Mann
The default suggestion would be for you (or people you can trust to do the work) to contact those further upstream who could tell you about the copyright status of each part of the work; repeat until done, continue in perpetuity. Can you explain to me what the consequences of an imcomplete