Licensing change: Audacious - GPLv3 --> BSD

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon Jul 9 19:52:23 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jul 09, 2012 at 09:47:40PM +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> Without proper attribution, e.g. in a commit message [of the merge done by
> a _different_ person] or in the preamble or inline, without a contributor
> explicitly requesting to be credited _anywhere at all_, how to keep track
> of the individual copyright holders who actually do want to keep their
> copyright related rights? How to distinguish from [patch] contributors,
> who don't care and who don't request credits and a copyright notice to
> be added to the file?

Revision control or some sort of out-of-band tracking. It's the 
project's responsibility, not the copyright holder's.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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