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 outdated and incomplete.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.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
-- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
