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

[David Kiarie]

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:15 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
> wrote:
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>> 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 outdated and incomplete.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.
>>
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> 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.


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