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

Peter Krempa pkrempa at redhat.com
Wed May 9 08:38:59 UTC 2018


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 outdated and incomplete.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.
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