Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-09-12 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:12:11AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: On 2008-08-24 20:36, Luk Claes wrote: I guess bug submitters and/or patch providers would also count as contributor? #417310 - patch by Martin Zobel-Helas [EMAIL PROTECTED] All of my contributions to the release notes were

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-09-03 Thread Joost van Baal
Hi, Op Sun 24 Aug 2008 om 07:00:56 +0200 schreef W. Martin Borgert: Somehow Luk managed to make me say OK, I'll collect the release notes for lenny. That's DebConf before the first coffee. At this moment I was not aware of the license issue: There is currently no license. The practical impact

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-27 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:58:25PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: But, in such an (unlikely) court battle the onus would be on them to prove that the stuff they committed was both copyrightable in the first place as well as not

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-27 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 08:55:24PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 09:58:25PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: But, in such an (unlikely) court battle the onus would be on them to prove that the stuff they committed

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:42:12AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: Obviously the implicit copyright all rights reserved would apply by default, but given that all contributions were explicitly published by all of the authors, I think that considering the work to be released into the

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-26 Thread Luk Claes
Josip Rodin wrote: On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:42:12AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: Obviously the implicit copyright all rights reserved would apply by default, but given that all contributions were explicitly published by all of the authors, I think that considering the work to be

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-26 Thread Josip Rodin
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote: But, in such an (unlikely) court battle the onus would be on them to prove that the stuff they committed was both copyrightable in the first place as well as not infringing on previous work (which they apparently didn't have any

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-25 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 02:45:50AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: From http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=332782#87, we have these contributors not listed in your mail: - Daniel Nylander Swedish translation. Translations being copyrightable works in their own right, their

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-25 Thread Jens Seidel
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:19:46PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:00:56PM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: I ask hereby - and in private mails following this one - all authors of the release notes to place their contribution to the release notes under the GNU General

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 01:12:11AM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: On 2008-08-24 20:36, Luk Claes wrote: I guess bug submitters and/or patch providers would also count as contributor? Yes. There are 16 bugs with a patch tag: #404891 - patch by Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-25 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2008-08-24 23:54, Steve Langasek wrote: Translations being copyrightable works in their own right, their authors should be asked to ratify the GPLv2 license to give us the best chance of reusing material; or is there another reason you mention here that he's a translator? Of course, it's

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:00:56PM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: I ask hereby - and in private mails following this one - all authors of the release notes to place their contribution to the release notes under the GNU General Public license (version 2 or higher) by an GPG-signed e-mail to

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-25 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2008-08-25 23:36, Josip Rodin wrote: Why do I have to be on top of the list of copyright mischief?! ;) Your name is the first in the author list :~) Obviously the implicit copyright all rights reserved would apply by default, but given that all contributions were explicitly published by

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-24 Thread W. Martin Borgert
Somehow Luk managed to make me say OK, I'll collect the release notes for lenny. That's DebConf before the first coffee. At this moment I was not aware of the license issue: There is currently no license. The practical impact is probably small, but I really want to solve the issue now. The bug

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-24 Thread Luk Claes
W. Martin Borgert wrote: Somehow Luk managed to make me say OK, I'll collect the release notes for lenny. That's DebConf before the first coffee. At this moment I was not aware of the license issue: There is currently no license. The practical impact is probably small, but I really want to

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 07:00:56PM +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote: Somehow Luk managed to make me say OK, I'll collect the release notes for lenny. That's DebConf before the first coffee. At this moment I was not aware of the license issue: There is currently no license. The practical impact

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-24 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2008-08-24 20:36, Luk Claes wrote: I guess bug submitters and/or patch providers would also count as contributor? Yes. There are 16 bugs with a patch tag: #404891 - patch by Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] #339081, #363056 - Japanese translation fixes by Kobayashi Noritada [EMAIL

Bug#332782: Release Notes: license clarification

2008-08-24 Thread W. Martin Borgert
On 2008-08-24 12:19, Steve Langasek wrote: I was a release note editor for the last release only; my contributions are far less than those of many others on that list, it's not really fair to call me a main author... OK. Legally, there is no reason to require GPG-signed email; and there's no