Re: Canonical jhbuild documentation

[Ekaterina Gerasimova <kittykat3756 gmail com>]

On 11/02/2015, Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Allan Day wrote:
>
> > > It would be nice if somebody could contact the authors:
> > >   James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au>
> > >   C.J. Adams-Collier <cjcollier at colliertech.org>
> > >   Frederic Peters (ok, done)
> > >   David Turner (Cillian64, from GHOP, back in 2007/2008, I can't
> > >                 find an email)
> >
> > Oh that's great - thanks Fred. Is there a bug or some other place
> > where the license update is being tracked? We'll need a way to record
> > the consent of the original authors, if I'm not mistaken.
>
> There's no tracking for that, but yes there should be.

When re-licensing documentation, the docs team usually files a bug
with a relicense patch attached. All the original authors are then
asked to sign off this patch and re-upload it.

For an example, see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703238