missing author info and license files for curve25519-dalek-derive

[alexanderkjall]

The readme file refers to license files that gives 404's here:

https://github.com/dalek-cryptography/curve25519-dalek/blob/main/curve25519-dalek-derive/README.md?plain=1#L189

Could I assume that the authors are the same as curve25519-dalek when packaging this for Debian?

[rozbb]

Good catch. I think it would be the people who contributed the crate. I'll make that PR and clarify things

[rozbb]

Update: the license files will be moved into the repo in #590

[rozbb]

Merged that PR. License files are now there. They don't have any copyright lines bc the author waived it. Feel free to reopen if this doesn't answer your question

[tarcieri]

Perhaps we should cut another crate release that includes these files?

[alexanderkjall]

It's not needed for my use case, but I'm still a bit unsure what I should document as copyright holders for the crate.

Would 'RustCrypto Developers' be good?

[rozbb]

How necessary is it to name a specific person? It seems like the field is freeform. So would Copyright 2023 work? I say this because I don't want to misrepresent the origin of the file, and placing "RustCrypto Developers" after a nonexistent copyright line is indistinguishable from claiming the whole thing was made by RustCrypto developers

[tarcieri]

You could say "Dalek Developers"

[alexanderkjall]

So copyright isn't about who created a piece of work, it rather about documenting who owns the copyright of the thing.

The reason I ask is that I don't fully understand what it means to "waive" ones copyright, I presumed it meant that they transferred their copyright to someone else, maybe to the group of developers who have built these crates, aka the RustCrypto Developers.

In a hypothetical scenario: If there was a pressing need to relicense this work under another license, who could do that?

[tarcieri]

@koute is the principal author of curve25519-dalek-derive