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Mark.

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> From: Thomas Goirand <zigo at debian.org>
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> Subject: [openstack-dev] Call for a clear COPYRIGHT-HOLDERS file in
> all OpenStack projects (and [trove]
> python-troveclient_0.1.4-1_amd64.changes REJECTED)
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:01:50 +0800
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> TroveClient just got rejected by Debian FTP masters. Reply from Luke
> Faraone is below.
> 
> In general, I would strongly advise that a clean COPYRIGHT-HOLDER file
> is created with the copyright holders in them. Why? Because it is hard
> to distinguish between authors and copyright holders, which are very
> distinct things. Listing the authors in debian/copyright doesn't seem to
> satisfy the FTP masters as well... :(
> 
> FYI, my reply was that I knew some of the authors were working for
> Rackspace, because I met them in Portland, and that I knew Rackspace was
> one of the copyright holders. Though that's of course not enough for the
> Debian FTP masters.
> 
> Your thoughts?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [Openstack-devel] python-troveclient_0.1.4-1_amd64.changes REJECTED
> Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:00:19 +0000
> From: Luke Faraone <ftpmaster at ftp-master.debian.org>
> To: PKG OpenStack <openstack-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org>, Thomas
> Goirand <zigo at debian.org>
> 
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> debian/copyright is **not** an AUTHORS list. This package appears to be
> Copyright (c) 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., and some
> other
> companies, not copyrighted each individual employee at HP who worked on it.
> 
> Your automated debian/copyright generation is most probably suboptimal for
> most packages, and is most certainly not a substitute for manual review.
> One
> missed copyright holder:
> 
> python-troveclient-0.1.4\troveclient\base.py:
>     Copyright 2010 Jacob Kaplan-Moss
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Luke Faraone
> FTP Team
> 
> 
> ===
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> your files were rejected, or if you upload new files which address our
> concerns.
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