Hi, I'm finding that media file are not attributed to the same degree that source code files are. License and copyright notices are often stated at the file-level for source code files... probably because these files have a way of migrating to other software packages. Media files have a way of migrating around too, yet license and copyright attribution is hardly ever included within the file. Sometimes it's even impossible to store that kind of information in a media file. Music files seem to have better attribution than video or images. It can be difficult to determine who has copyright on an image file found in a Fedora package. The problem gets worse if a few years pass and memories fade, and VCS-es migrate. In my opinion these copyright holes introduce licensing uncertainty, and it serves our Free Software ecosystem well to attribute files with license and copyright notices. It can probably be considered as mostly an upstream problem, but there is also the special case of when a Fedora maintainer adds a media file to a package. Should there be (or is there already) a policy or guideline about per-file license and copyright notices? How about a policy just for Fedora maintainers for any media files they incorporate into a package? GNU Savannah (http://sv.gnu.org) enforces copyright and license notices for new upstream packages that it hosts. I'm not on the list, so please include me in replies. Ben _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
