[SCM] ardour3/master: Update copyright file.

Jonas Smedegaard dr at jones.dk
Thu Sep 19 12:57:14 UTC 2013


Quoting Fabian Greffrath (2013-09-19 13:17:48)
> Am Donnerstag, den 19.09.2013, 13:00 +0200 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> > Also, include Davis' mail only if you consider it evidence of DFSG 
> > compliance.  E.g. are you comfortable with the information coming 
> > via a third party, that hints explicitly that it is only an 
> > interpretation of a far more vague (claimed) statement from the 
> > actual author?
> 
> Well, I think that's a bit over-cautious. At a certain point we will 
> just have to trust upstream authors and take their words as given. 
> Else we could as well start to second-guess Copyright statements in 
> source file headers and challenge if the authors stated there are 
> *really* the copyright holders to that code or if they just claim so.

So you are essentially saying that you _are_ comfortable.  Great!

Please note that I didn't say I was not comfortable, or that Jaromír 
shouldn't be.

If you (as is a possibly interpretation) mean to say that _generally_ it 
is "a bit over-cautious" to only write into copyright file what one is 
comfortable with the quality of, then I strongly disagree!


 - Jonas

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