Re: Is it allowed to remove attribution in public domain "licensed" source code? (and pondering about ftp-level reviews)

2024-03-31 Thread Jonas Smedegaard
Quoting Otto Kekäläinen (2024-03-30 22:09:46) > Is it so that the debian/copyright file is reviewed by ftp-masters > only for packages in NEW queue, and there is probably no automation in > place to flag subsequent copyright changes for re-review? It is my understanding that it is, and always has

Re: Is it allowed to remove attribution in public domain "licensed" source code? (and pondering about ftp-level reviews)

2024-03-30 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Otto, At 2024-03-30T14:09:46-0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > While reviewing xz-utils commits I noticed that a bunch of old > copyright holder names were removed in > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils/-/commit/d1b67558cbc06c449a0ae7b7c1694e277aef4a78. > > Is this OK to do so? My opinion

Is it allowed to remove attribution in public domain "licensed" source code? (and pondering about ftp-level reviews)

2024-03-30 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! While reviewing xz-utils commits I noticed that a bunch of old copyright holder names were removed in https://salsa.debian.org/debian/xz-utils/-/commit/d1b67558cbc06c449a0ae7b7c1694e277aef4a78. Is this OK to do so? Having source code in the public domain means that there is no copyright, so n