le Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:05:26PM +0200 par Daniel Baumann : > Marcus Better wrote: > > Daniel Baumann wrote: > >> It is RC if the debian/copyright is incorrect or incomplete. > > > > Well, I think it is extremely rare that debian/copyright contains the > > name and dates of every single contributor, although that is the > > recommended practice. This includes some very central Debian packages. > > We should work on this issue though. > > I'm afraid, but you mix two things: Authors and contributors. > > Contributors do only take credit, authors do claim copyright on > particular components. > > e.g. GCC lists officially more than 300 core contributors, where as the > copyright holder is solely the FSF.
- that's the result of an agreement. In Tikiwiki we have another one, to prevent change of the licence, we use the collective copyright principle, which actually is a sort of 'lock', because when you have 300 copyrighters and no agreement on how to decide changes, you usualy (in most countries afaik) require the unanimity. Then if one of those holders disagree with a change in the licence, it won't change. But we coders are not lawyers, and maybe you can give advises on better ways to achieve same goals. Anyway that's why our copyright.txt file includes every single people that has committed at least once. In more, there are the copyright holders of all third party code source that is used in tikiwiki, and we checked them all about compatibility with LGPL tikiwiki licence (but to be correct they have to be counted as copyright holders of at least a part of tikiwiki, in more than the list in copyright.txt). cheers, mose -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
