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<p class="MsoNormal">Either 1 or 3.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2 does not solve anything.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Monty Taylor [mailto:mordred@inaugust.com] <br>
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 10:01 AM<br>
To: openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org<br>
Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [all] Proposal: copyright-holders file in each project, or copyright holding forced to the OpenStack Foundation<br>
<br>
On 01/15/2016 10:38 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:<br>
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:48:21PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:<br>
>> This isn't the first time I'm calling for it. Let's hope this time, <br>
>> I'll be heard.<br>
>><br>
>> Randomly, contributors put their company names into source code. When <br>
>> they do, then effectively, this tells that a given source file <br>
>> copyright holder is whatever is claimed, even though someone from <br>
>> another company may have patched it.<br>
>><br>
>> As a result, we have a huge mess. It's impossible for me, as a <br>
>> package maintainer, to accurately set the copyright holder names in <br>
>> the debian/copyright file, which is a required by the Debian FTP masters.<br>
><br>
> I don't think OpenStack is in a different situation to the vast <br>
> majority of open source projects I've worked with or seen. Except for <br>
> those projects requiring copyright assignment to a single entity, it <br>
> is normal for source files to contain an unreliable random splattering <br>
> of Copyright notices. This hasn't seemed to create a blocking problem <br>
> for their maintenance in Debian. Loooking at the debian/copyright <br>
> files I see most of them have just done a grep for the 'Copyright' <br>
> statements & included as is - IOW just ignored the fact that this is <br>
> essentially worthless info and included it regardless.<br>
<br>
Agree. debian/copyright should be a best effort - but it can only be as good as the input data available to the packager. Try getting an accurate debian/copyright file for the MySQL source tree at some point.
<br>
(and good luck)<br>
<br>
>> I see 2 ways forward:<br>
>> 1/ Require everyone to give-up copyright holding, and give it to the <br>
>> OpenStack Foundation.<br>
>> 2/ Maintain a copyright-holder file in each project.<br>
<br>
> 3/ Do nothing, just populate debian/copyright with the random<br>
> set of 'Copyright' lines that happen to be the source files,<br>
> as appears to be common practice across many debian packages<br>
><br>
> eg the kernel package<br>
><br>
> <br>
> http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/linux/linux_3.<br>
> 16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3_copyright<br>
><br>
> "Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others"<br>
><br>
> if its good enough for the Debian kernel package, it should be<br>
> good enough for openstack packages too IMHO.<br>
<br>
I vote for 3<br>
<br>
<br>
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