On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Stefano Zacchiroli <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 05:23:59PM +0100, Thomas Koch wrote: >> I'm currently hacking on the maven-repo-helper package. The source code >> contains copyright statements from the original author. Now when I add >> classes >> it would be logical to add "Copyright 2013 Thomas Koch". >> >> But I don't see any sense in this. I've no interest to be the copyright >> holder. I'd much rather like to write "Copyright 2013 The Debian Project". >> (Actually I'm totally annoyed by anything related to copyright...) >> >> Do you have any advise for code that originates in the Debian project? > > In essence, you're asking for some sort of volunteer copyright > assignment (or more likely contributor licensing agreement), similar to > what KDE e.V. offers to contributors of the KDE project, see > http://ev.kde.org/rules/fla.php > > Those kind of agreements are entirely optional and interesting for > contributors like you, who don't want to care about copyright related > matter and empower trusted 3rd party entities to take care of them > (e.g. for licensing enforcements if/when the need arises). > > It wouldn't make sense to assign copyright to the Debian Project, but it > might make sense to assign it to some of our trusted organization, like > SPI. I'm myself not aware of mechanisms offered by SPI to allow > volunteer copyright assignment. Hence I've just asked on the spi-general > mailing list if that is something the organization is interested in > supporting. I'll let you know if I hear back of anything actionable; in > the mean time you can follow the discussion there. > > Thanks for raising this topic!
Zack, It may also be worth reaching out to the Software Freedom Conservancy if this turns out to be out of scope for SPI http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/ (If I recall the SFLC helped get them off the ground, and they were founded to "own" projects that weren't a good fit for the FSF's GNU project). -Brian > Cheers. > -- > Stefano Zacchiroli . . . . . . . [email protected] . . . . o . . . o . o > Maître de conférences . . . . . http://upsilon.cc/zack . . . o . . . o o > Debian Project Leader . . . . . . @zack on identi.ca . . o o o . . . o . > « the first rule of tautology club is the first rule of tautology club » -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cacfairw6bhc+yctg78wfynzmnkkf_t7hjowaaixqas+hmk-...@mail.gmail.com
