On May 28, 2013, at 8:24 PM, Jordan Justen <jljus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've not seen any qualifications put into place on copyrights in EDK > II. Nor have I really seen this done commonly in other projects. There > are many files with copyright notices for more than one contributor in > the tree. > > Doesn't source control help unravel who did what in cases where that > is required? (Well, svn loses the true author of the commit, but you > get the idea.) Jordan, My understanding with copyrights is the worst thing you can do is remove other peoples copyrights. So what I do if i start with an edk2 template is I copy that copyright and add a 2nd line, "Portions copyrighted ...." Probably overkill, but saves you from talking to the lawyer. At some point one work is a derived work of another work. As you point out I don't think it is important to define what is what in the copyright header, but you just capture the fact that it is a derived work. So I think "Portions copyrighted ..." plus the original copyright is all you need for a derived work. Thanks, your lawyer may vary... I don't speak for my company... You should ask Mark..., You should ask your own lawyer, etc... Andrew Fish ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Introducing AppDynamics Lite, a free troubleshooting tool for Java/.NET Get 100% visibility into your production application - at no cost. Code-level diagnostics for performance bottlenecks with <2% overhead Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap1 _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/edk2-devel
