On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 10:23 -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 08:17:19AM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
Full thread here:
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2013-October/thread.html#...
cc'ing Thomas Goirand.
I have a feeling something is being lost in the translation from Debian to OpenStack, but I'm not sure. I've read the full thread but do not understand the issue.
Me too.
If Debian were to insist on a complete list of all copyright holders for each of its packages, it would have to shut itself down.
Indeed. And I haven't heard an explanation yet as to *why* this information is important except "a downstream policy with no clear justification requires it".
If there is a Debian packaging requirement that requires a package maintainer to collect all identified copyright holders into a single file, that is the package maintainer's responsibility.
Agree with this too ... unless this information is somehow useful and important in a broader context. Thanks, Mark.