Either 1 or 3. 2 does not solve anything. -----Original Message----- From: Monty Taylor [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 10:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Proposal: copyright-holders file in each project, or copyright holding forced to the OpenStack Foundation
On 01/15/2016 10:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:48:21PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> This isn't the first time I'm calling for it. Let's hope this time, >> I'll be heard. >> >> Randomly, contributors put their company names into source code. When >> they do, then effectively, this tells that a given source file >> copyright holder is whatever is claimed, even though someone from >> another company may have patched it. >> >> As a result, we have a huge mess. It's impossible for me, as a >> package maintainer, to accurately set the copyright holder names in >> the debian/copyright file, which is a required by the Debian FTP masters. > > I don't think OpenStack is in a different situation to the vast > majority of open source projects I've worked with or seen. Except for > those projects requiring copyright assignment to a single entity, it > is normal for source files to contain an unreliable random splattering > of Copyright notices. This hasn't seemed to create a blocking problem > for their maintenance in Debian. Loooking at the debian/copyright > files I see most of them have just done a grep for the 'Copyright' > statements & included as is - IOW just ignored the fact that this is > essentially worthless info and included it regardless. Agree. debian/copyright should be a best effort - but it can only be as good as the input data available to the packager. Try getting an accurate debian/copyright file for the MySQL source tree at some point. (and good luck) >> I see 2 ways forward: >> 1/ Require everyone to give-up copyright holding, and give it to the >> OpenStack Foundation. >> 2/ Maintain a copyright-holder file in each project. > 3/ Do nothing, just populate debian/copyright with the random > set of 'Copyright' lines that happen to be the source files, > as appears to be common practice across many debian packages > > eg the kernel package > > > http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/linux/linux_3. > 16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3_copyright > > "Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others" > > if its good enough for the Debian kernel package, it should be > good enough for openstack packages too IMHO. I vote for 3 __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: [email protected]?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
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