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 outdated and incomplete.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.

The Author lines are not part of the license notice so that's free to be
modified or removed.

Regards,
Daniel
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