On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 01:16:31AM +0100, Monty Taylor wrote:
- We should not include the text of the CLA in our tarballs as was suggested. There are several reasons for this, most of which that I do not feel it's necessary, and the rest of them having to do with the fact that I still feel that our CLA is pointless and kind of embarrasing.
It would certainly be strange to include the text of the CLA in the tarballs. I took a look at some Debian 'copyright' files for ASF projects, which are somewhat similar to OpenStack legally. I can only conclude that either the FTP master in question here is misinterpreting the Debian project's guidelines, or that OpenStack is being held to a stricter standard than other multiple-copyright-holder projects packaged in Debian. (There seemed to be a hint in the thread on openstack-dev that this might be intentionally so, because OpenStack is 'new'?) - RF