On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:56 PM, John Ferlan <jferlan@redhat.com> wrote:

[...]


>     > >> 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.
>     > >
>     >
>     > And I totally don't have a problem with Suse copyrighting the file
>     but why
>     > can't I do the same ?
>

Sooo... without GSOC and SUSE's support through their employee Jim
Fehlig would you have written that code on your own and tried to have it
included in libvirt? I would think SUSE has a stake in the written code
as their resource(s) were being used. Yes, they benefit from it, but so
did you as you can point to that code as being authored by you.

I did this project in 2014 - to be honest, at the time, at least, most student were evaluated on merit.

 

I don't think anyone is indicating you didn't write the code. Using a
pseudonym is not allowed as part of the project's policy.

>     You can have Copyright line on any file you made non-trivial
>     contributions
>     too. It is upto the person contributing patches to add Copyright line if
>     they wish to. The Suse copyright is there simply because their patch
>     author chose to add it when they contributed to that file.
>
>     > Or, would you rather I use the pseudonym 'Oneko Ltd'  instead of just
>     > 'Oneko' ?
>
>     Copyright lines need to use legal real names, or company name, not
>     pseudonyms.
>
>
> In which case you mean that if I write a patch copyrighting these file
> on the company name 'Oneko and sons'  you will merge that patch ?
>
>

INAL, but altering a copyright after the fact to include a "new" company
name that was either not involved in the authorship of the code or not a
company at the time of authorship could result in legal issues. Does
SUSE decide/desire to release their copyright claim to the new company?
Does the new company stand to gain something by the copyright claim?

We don't have a new company here. We have an almost four year old cat.

 

John