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On Oct 21, 2013, at 1:55 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-10-22 at 01:45 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
>> On 10/20/2013 09:00 PM, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
>>> On 2013-10-20 22:20:25 +1300 (+1300), Robert Collins wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>> OTOH registering one's nominated copyright holder on the first
>>>> patch to a repository is probably a sustainable overhead. And it's
>>>> probably amenable to automation - a commit hook could do it locally
>>>> and a check job can assert that it's done.
>>> 
>>> I know the Foundation's got work underway to improve the affiliate
>>> map from the member database, so it might be possible to have some
>>> sort of automated job which proposes changes to a copyright holders
>>> list in each project by running a query with the author and date of
>>> each commit looking for new affiliations. That seems like it would
>>> be hacky, fragile and inaccurate, but probably still more reliable
>>> than expecting thousands of contributors to keep that information up
>>> to date when submitting patches?
>> 
>> My request wasn't to go *THAT* far. The main problem I was facing was
>> that troveclient has a few files stating that HP was the sole copyright
>> holder, when it clearly was not (since I have discussed a bit with some
>> the dev team in Portland, IIRC some of them are from Rackspace...).
> 
> Talk to the Trove developers and politely ask them whether the copyright
> notices in their code reflects what they see as the reality.
> 
> I'm sure it would help them if you pointed out to them some significant
> chunks of code from the commit history which don't appear to have been
> written by a HP employee.
> 
> Simply adding a Rackspace copyright notice to a file or two which has
> had a significant contribution by someone from Rackspace would be enough
> to resolve your concerns completely.
> 
> i.e. if you spot in inaccuracy in the copyright headers, just make it
> easy for us people to fix it and I'm sure they will.

++ to this. Id like to do what is best for OpenStack, but i dont want to make it impossible for the debian ftp masters to approve trove :) so if this is sufficient, ill fix the copyright headers.

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