Re: Copyright header for localedata files contributed under DCO

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On 05 Sep 2021 07:17, Florian Weimer via Libc-alpha wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger:
> > i'm saying the files should disclaim all copyright.  the point is to convey
> > that these are data files where copyright shouldn't be relevant.
> 
> That's a very U.S.-centric perspective.  Many countries do not allow
> authors to disclaim copyright (at best such a declaration would
> interpreted as something like CC0).  And many countries also offer some
> kind of protection to organized collections of facts.

i'm aware of the thorny issues that some countries don't understand the concept
of public domain.  that is orthogonal to facts can't be copyrighted in the first
place.  iiuc, the FSF position on these files is that these are a list of facts
and as such, aren't eligble for copyright, so the notice at the top of the file
is making that clear (instead of the reasonable assumption that it's under the
top level COPYING* i.e. GPL-2 or LGPL-2).

i'll point out that these issues are not new.  it has always been this way, and
DCO doesn't really change it.

if you want to be super pessimistic and put something like CC0 on it, that's
fine, but we still need a check enforcing it.

> And I don't want to create a third type of contributions.

you've lost me.  requiring certain files be licensed in a certain way is not a
new issue.  we already won't accept contributions if people try to use something
like WTFPL.
-mike

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