Code written by the wrong people (was: Shipping plugins)

[Ben Finney]

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org> writes:

> Am 29/03/12 08:58, schrieb Vincent Ladeuil:
> > A few others that come to mind (I haven't checked them against the
> > rationale you give above though):
> >
> > - bzr-xmloutput,
> This has non-Canonical copyright holders.
> > - bzr-search,
> Has non-Canonical copyright holders.
> > - bzr-rebase ?
> bzr-rebase was renamed to bzr-rewrite. It has non-Canonical copyright
> holders.

The only reason “has non-Canonical copyright holders” is mentioned here
is, I assume, because of Canonical's stubborn insistence on having a
specially privileged position over other contributors to the Bazaar code
base <URL:https://lwn.net/Articles/359013/>.

At what point does the number of problems – such as stalling on code
which would be good to include, is under exactly the same license terms,
but happens to be written by the wrong people – caused by this policy
become enough to demand that the policy be changed?

Please, Bazaar developers, convince Canonical that your project is being
hurt by this silliness, and move to the “inbound == outbound” copyright
policy of the vast majority of successful free-software projects
<URL:https://lwn.net/Articles/414051/>.

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Ben Finney
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