<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:18 PM, David Kiarie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidkiarie4@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidkiarie4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="gmail-h5">On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:15 PM, David Kiarie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davidkiarie4@gmail.com" target="_blank">davidkiarie4@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:berrange@redhat.com" target="_blank">berrange@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-m_-278666772365796607m_1834192211770404797HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-278666772365796607m_1834192211770404797h5">On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:38:59AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:<br> > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:51:01 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:<br> > > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:14:29AM +0300, David Kiarie wrote:<br> > > > <br> > > > This is okay but this definitely wrong. And it does indeed sound wrong. And<br> > > > it will always sound wrong.<br> > > > <br> > > > Being involved in a GSoC project is not about contributions. And also<br> > > > considering the scale of our project(some of the code even never got<br> > > > merged). There was a lot of research, design, planning, implementation,<br> > > > review and finally the code got merged.<br> > > > <br> > > > I should at least be able to copyright the file. I mean, Jim was my mentor,<br> > > > I did most of the work but his company copyright is right at the top of the<br> > > > file - Does this sound okay to you ?<br> > > <br> > > You own copyright on any contributions you make, regardless of what any<br> > > Copyright statement at the top of the file says. Just like the Author<br> > > lines in file headers, these Copyright lines in source files are at best<br> > > outdated and incomplete. Anyone who wishes to identify the copyright<br> > > ownership has no choice but to look at the git history which records<br> > > exactly who wrote what.<br> > <br> > Soo, can we also delete the "Copyright ..." lines from the top of the<br> > license statement? That's a cleanup which I'll gladly do.<br> <br> </div></div>No, you can not delete other people's Copyright lines - they are considered<br> part of the license notice so can only be altered by the copyright holder.<br></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>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 ?</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div></div><div>Contrary to the fact that most libvirt developers work for a company, this was mostly independent work.</div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And I totally don't have a problem with Suse copyrighting the file but why can't I do the same ?</div><div><br></div><div>Or, would you rather I use the pseudonym 'Oneko Ltd' instead of just 'Oneko' ?</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="gmail-"><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br> The Author lines are not part of the license notice so that's free to be<br> modified or removed.<br> <div class="gmail-m_-278666772365796607m_1834192211770404797HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-m_-278666772365796607m_1834192211770404797h5"><br> Regards,<br> Daniel<br> -- <br> |: <a href="https://berrange.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://berrange.com</a> -o- <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/<wbr>dberrange</a> :|<br> |: <a href="https://libvirt.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://libvirt.org</a> -o- <a href="https://fstop138.berrange.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://fstop138.berrange.com</a> :|<br> |: <a href="https://entangle-photo.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://entangle-photo.org</a> -o- <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dberrange" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/dber<wbr>range</a> :|<br> </div></div></blockquote></span></div><br></div></div> </blockquote></span></div><br></div></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></div>