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

David Kiarie davidkiarie4 at gmail.com
Thu May 10 07:48:03 UTC 2018


On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 5:27 PM, Oneko <kawaiii.nekomata at gmail.com> wrote:

>
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> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 3:24 PM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 05/09/2018 01:51 PM, David Kiarie wrote:
>> > On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 2:29 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:56 PM, John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> [...]
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>>     > >> 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 ?
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Sooo... without GSOC and SUSE's support through their employee Jim
>> >>> Fehlig would you have written that code on your own and tried to have
>> it
>> >>> included in libvirt? I would think SUSE has a stake in the written
>> code
>> >>> as their resource(s) were being used. Yes, they benefit from it, but
>> so
>> >>> did you as you can point to that code as being authored by you
>
>
> What SUSE resource ?
>
>
>> .
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> I did this project in 2014 - to be honest, at the time, at least, most
>> >> student were evaluated on merit.
>> >>
>> >
>> > GSoC is just a totally wasted project since Carols left :-(
>>
>> I'm not going to get into authorship discussion, enough has been said.
>> But being org admin for libvirt since 2013 I've been dealing with both
>> Carol and Stephanie and frankly both of them are awesome and try/tried
>> their best. At every Mentor summit we have a discussion what went well
>> and what we can do better. They collect ideas and put them in practice.
>>
>> And despite your comments I think GSoC has been a great success for
>> libvirt too. We have students coming back, students who stay after
>> program ends and contribute afterwards, students whose code is still
>> used (I just used wireshark dissector the other day).
>
>
I respect your opinion but that wouldn't mean my work is there for for Suse
corporation to copyright.

I will assume my pseudonym as my legal name(that is if Kenyan laws don't
allow one to copyright work on a pseudonym) and I will copyright this code
on the name.


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>> Michal
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