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

[David Kiarie]

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:43 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 01:36:35PM +0300, David Kiarie wrote:
> > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:18 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:15 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <
> berrange at redhat.com>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> 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 outdated and incomplete.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.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> 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 ?
>
> 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 ?


> Regards,
> Daniel
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