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On 10/19/2013 05:49 AM, Michael Still wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 7:52 PM, Clint Byrum <clint at fewbar.com> wrote:
> 
>> I suggest that we just put Copyright headers back in the source files.
>> That will make Debian's licensecheck work fairly automatically. A single
>> file that tries to do exactly what debian/copyright would do seems a bit
>> odd.
>
> The problem here is that the copyright headers were wrong. They aren't
> religiously added to, and sometimes people have tried to "gift" code
> to the Foundation by saying the code is copyright the Foundation,
> which isn't always true. So, we can't lean on these headers for
> accurate statements of copyright.

This is correct. As with many things that are harder for us than for
other people, we have >=1000 developers and the history thus-far has
been for people to be rather antagonistic and annoyed when someone tries
to suggest proper copyright attribution.

What we CAN say is that every single commit is Apache licensed. Our CLA
and enforcement of it, sad as this statement makes me, ensures that we
know that.

I'm not sure what to do re: FTP masters. Could someone expand for me
like I'm an idiot what the goal they are trying to achieve is? I _think_
that they're trying to make sure that the code is free software and that
it is annotated somewhere that we know this to be true, yeah? Is there
an additional thing being attempted?

Monty