[Fedora-legal-list] are copyright headers for all source files required?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Dec 12 01:13:06 UTC 2011


In other words, say there are a small number of source files in a packaged 
(tarball) work that lack any or clear copyright header, should that be 
considered a review blocker?

IANAL and being a generally pragmatic fellow, I'd hoped that we could 
generally give upstreams the benefit of the doubt, for lack of any contrary 
evidence.

Fwiw, yes, I have a concrete case in mind here,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749885
and yes, I've asked upstream for clarification (without reply so far).  I'd 
also hoped not to have a pkg review blocked semi-indefinitely on something 
like this though.

What say you?

-- rex




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