Christian Grothoff transcribed 4.0K bytes: > On 09/14/2017 08:40 AM, Werner Koch wrote: > > Common law (US/UK) allows to entirely sell your copyright; in European > > law you can't sell your copyright. But the final effect is basically > > the same. > > > >> don't see that you'd even have a right to require attribution, and you > > > > Who can take that away? > > My understanding of the GPL is that it allows arbitrary modifications, > including removing author attributions. That's why the GFDL has > invariant sections, which in turn has caused Debian to declare GFDL with > invariant sections as non-free. So my interpretation is that if you > contribute to a project under GPL, you implicitly waive your right to > require attribution because of the license. So it's not taken away, it's > given away together with liberating the code. (None of this should imply > that it is morally right to remove attributions.) > > >> certainly have no duty to provide it in any particular form either. > >> Besides, Git is good enough for that for anyone who really wants to know. > > > > The problem with relying on Git is that there is no requirement to > > distribute the repo along with the, say, tarball. Eventually there will > > be only a tarball with modification outside of Git. Thus it is
That's actually something I could do, once I have `make dist` fixed or something similar written. Inclusion of a Changelog wouldn't display all the files touched as I was lazy with commit notes, but iirc git has ways to include that aswell. > > important to distribute a ChangeLog with the source (the GPL even > > requires such a list of changes not done by the original author)). A > > ChangeLog derived from a Git log should be sufficient because it allows > > to see who did changes at all. > > Yep, but gnurl isn't GPL, it's license doesn't have that clause. Also, > I seriously hope some of the plans to obsolete it will allow us to > terminate it long before Git becomes obsolete. ;-) > > -- ng0 GnuPG: A88C8ADD129828D7EAC02E52E22F9BBFEE348588 GnuPG: https://krosos.org/dist/keys/ https://www.infotropique.org https://www.krosos.org
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