Copyright owner [Was Re: file headers]

[Goffredo Baroncelli]

Hi Martin,

On Saturday 25 February 2006 01:29, Martin Pool wrote:
> Yes, we would like for Canonical to own the copyrights so that there is
> one person who can speak for it.  One example is that although the
> copyrights can say "GPLv2 or later", we might want to relicence some
> parts in the future under say the Python Standard Licence so that they
> can go into the python distribution.


And what about source which started from a different project ?
The copyright holder of the plugins webserve[*] is the author of Mercurial ( 
Matt Mackall ), because the plugins is a derived work from the Mercurial project.

I rewrote a lot of line, but is a derived work.

So, if Canonical would like to own the copyright of all the source of bazaar,
 I see only two way:
1) Leave the webserve plugin as plugin forever, which implies a lot of difficult 
in maintaining (in the past you spoke about the possibility of including the
webserve plugin in the mainline)
2) Rewrite from scratch the code... :-(


[*] The mercurial code is released under GPLv2
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