On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 11:49:04AM +0100, Armin Ronacher wrote: > > Hi, > > Noah Slater wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I am in the process of updating my Debian package of Werkzeug for 0.4 and > > I'm > > running into some problems with the copyright and licensing. > > > > Firstly we have the following page: > > > > http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/license > > > > Which lists the copyright as "the Pocoo Team" with a BSD license. > Which is correct with the legal problem of "what the heck is the pocoo > team"? It's a lose definition and should be changed to authors in the > AUTHORs file.
It is perfectly fine for "the Pocoo Team" to hold copyright. > > *snip* > > > > Is there any chance you would consider consolidating the copyright and > > license > > notices so that they all read the same and making a 0.4.1 release? > Of course. Please let me know what would be the licensing annotation of > Choice for Debian. If it's just the "sync :copyright:" with "AUTHORS" > and fix the license file I'll do that, if you need the years > synchronized as well I'll change older dates to X-current-year. > > Quite frank I somehow get the feeling that reassigning copyright to a > single entity solves quite a lot of problems, maybe that's an option too. You can do what the Apache Software Foundation does. Instead of accepting copyright assignments (like the FSF does, this is a legal document that gives your copyright to another entity) the ASF declares every source code committer a part of the Apache Software Foundation and then makes every single copyright declaration like the following: Copyright 2008, the Apache Software Foundation So, following in these footsteps you could put every contributer in the AUTHORS file and have a paragraph that says something like the following: Werkzeug was developed by the Pocoo Team, which includes the following people: Person One Person Two Person Three Then in each copyright file you state: Copyright 2008, the Pocoo Team It would be great if you could make all the copyright statements synchronised like this, with years, holder, and license. It might do well do make so it synchronises with the Web version of the license too. I am happy to checkout and look over the source before you make the release. -- Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pocoo-libs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pocoo-libs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
