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+1 james bottomley

On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:55 PM, James Bottomley <
James.Bottomley at hansenpartnership.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 15:38 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 08:48:21PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> > > This isn't the first time I'm calling for it. Let's hope this time,
> > > I'll
> > > be heard.
> > >
> > > Randomly, contributors put their company names into source code.
> > > When
> > > they do, then effectively, this tells that a given source file
> > > copyright
> > > holder is whatever is claimed, even though someone from another
> > > company
> > > may have patched it.
> > >
> > > As a result, we have a huge mess. It's impossible for me, as a
> > > package
> > > maintainer, to accurately set the copyright holder names in the
> > > debian/copyright file, which is a required by the Debian FTP
> > > masters.
> >
> > I don't think OpenStack is in a different situation to the vast
> > majority of open source projects I've worked with or seen. Except
> > for those projects requiring copyright assignment to a single
> > entity, it is normal for source files to contain an unreliable
> > random splattering of Copyright notices. This hasn't seemed to
> > create a blocking problem for their maintenance in Debian. Loooking
> > at the debian/copyright files I see most of them have just done a
> > grep for the 'Copyright' statements & included as is - IOW just
> > ignored the fact that this is essentially worthless info and included
> > it regardless.
> >
> > > I see 2 ways forward:
> > > 1/ Require everyone to give-up copyright holding, and give it to
> > > the
> > > OpenStack Foundation.
> > > 2/ Maintain a copyright-holder file in each project.
> >
> > 3/ Do nothing, just populate debian/copyright with the random
> >    set of 'Copyright' lines that happen to be the source files,
> >    as appears to be common practice across many debian packages
> >
> >    eg the kernel package
> >
> >     http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs/main/l/linux/lin
> > ux_3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3_copyright
> >
> >     "Copyright: 1991-2012 Linus Torvalds and many others"
> >
> >    if its good enough for the Debian kernel package, it should be
> >    good enough for openstack packages too IMHO.
>
> This is what I'd vote for.  It seems to be enough to satisfy the debian
> policy on copyrights and it means nothing has to change in Openstack.
>
> James
>
>
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