+1 james bottomley On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:55 PM, James Bottomley < james.bottom...@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 15:38 +0000, 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. > > > > > 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/lin > > ux_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. > > This is what I'd vote for. It seems to be enough to satisfy the debian > policy on copyrights and it means nothing has to change in Openstack. > > James > > > __________________________________________________________________________ > OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) > Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev >
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