Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] xenconfig: Remove references to my name and email

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:15 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > >> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:38:59AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote: >> > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:51:01 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote: >> > > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:14:29AM +0300, David Kiarie wrote: >> > > > >> > > > This is okay but this definitely wrong. And it does indeed sound >> wrong. And >> > > > it will always sound wrong. >> > > > >> > > > Being involved in a GSoC project is not about contributions. And >> also >> > > > considering the scale of our project(some of the code even never >> got >> > > > merged). There was a lot of research, design, planning, >> implementation, >> > > > review and finally the code got merged. >> > > > >> > > > I should at least be able to copyright the file. I mean, Jim was >> my mentor, >> > > > I did most of the work but his company copyright is right at the >> top of the >> > > > file - Does this sound okay to you ? >> > > >> > > You own copyright on any contributions you make, regardless of what >> any >> > > Copyright statement at the top of the file says. Just like the Author >> > > lines in file headers, these Copyright lines in source files are at >> best >> > > outdated and incomplete. Anyone who wishes to identify the copyright >> > > ownership has no choice but to look at the git history which records >> > > exactly who wrote what. >> > >> > Soo, can we also delete the "Copyright ..." lines from the top of the >> > license statement? That's a cleanup which I'll gladly do. >> >> No, you can not delete other people's Copyright lines - they are >> considered >> part of the license notice so can only be altered by the copyright >> holder. >> > > Suse copyright notice has been on this file since the day this file got > merged. To be honest, I did most of the original work so why should Suse > copyright appear here while me doesn't ? > Contrary to the fact that most libvirt developers work for a company, this was mostly independent work.

> > >> >> The Author lines are not part of the license notice so that's free to be >> modified or removed. >> >> Regards, >> Daniel >> -- >> |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/ >> dberrange :| >> |: https://libvirt.org -o- >> https://fstop138.berrange.com :| >> |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dber >> range :| >> > >