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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?
From:       Thomas Goirand <zigo () debian ! org>
Date:       2017-12-19 9:12:09
Message-ID: 474fe4bc-71bb-5869-77bc-43ba659f548d () debian ! org
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On 12/19/2017 02:01 AM, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:48 PM, Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:
>> On 12/07/2017 05:57 AM, Steve Robbins wrote:
>>> So: if I changed the boost copyright file to say "Copyright: $Dates Boost
>>> authors", would it pass ftp-master scrutiny?
>>
>> No, I don't think so.
>>
>> I'm not sure what the FTP master logic is, but for me, the kernel is so
>> much a high profile package, that it doesn't mater much, as we all know
>> it is free software, and authors can be easily identified. It cannot be
>> said the same thing about everything within Debian. Probably that's the
>> FTP master reasoning: they don't need to check so much for the Linux
>> kernel as they do for other less known piece of software.
> 
> Are you saying that Boost isn't well-known?

I'm saying it cannot be compared to the Linux kernel.

> I was forced to spend a
> few hours doing a thorough copyright file earlier this year for
> mozjs52 which is simply the JavaScript engine from Firefox 52 ESR.

Everyone who did major contribution to Debian had to do such a boring
work at some point. It's boring, annoying, frustrating, etc... but
necessary, unfortunately.

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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