On 12/19/2017 10:47 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > We (the Debian Project) don't have to accept being the *only* ones > shouldering this burden. Large upstream organisations have large > shoulders. > > Surely a team responsible for a large code base also must – to avoid > self-delusion – confront the need to know, with confidence that comes > from standard, verifiable documentation, the provenance of works from > which their code base is derived.
I wish you good luck with that. I attempted *twice* to have the copyright holder information attached to each upstream project on upstream OpenStack, and twice this was a failure. Maybe I'm not good with communication, but I don' think it's the bigger factor. I just think upstream doesn't care, they (wrongly) think that licensing is enough, when clearly, it's not for Debian (we also care the copyright holding part). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
