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. 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. 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. One of the suggestions in the thread made by someone seemed to be to make some automated mapping between an author and an affiliated organization, but this will not necessarily yield a correct identification of the copyright holder (that is true, for example, in a number of cases involving Red Hat employees). - Richard
Mark.
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From: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> Reply-to: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> To: OpenStack Development Mailing List <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> 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@ftp-master.debian.org> To: PKG OpenStack <openstack-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>, Thomas Goirand <zigo@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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