[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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