On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Zed A. Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, and this is a big misnomer among open source folks, the > copyright isn't on a file, it's on the project. It's kind of like > saying if you edit a page in my book with a marker you get to put your > copyright on that page. Additionally there isn't enough change to that > file to warrant an entire copyright change as it's still primarily > written by myself and other project contributors. > > What you can do is either officially donate it back to the project under > the original copyright with a small notice giving credit to yourself > and/or Raritan that you did the master/slave/unixsocket hack, or pull > this out into a separate, completely and wholely written by you/raritan > file that has none of my code and then release under your own license > however you like.
We haven't required copyright assignment from any of the other contributors, so there's no way we could relicense anyway without stripping out their code. So I think it is fine for Raritan to keep the original copyright, since it's under the same license. I agree that there's no point in the additional copyright notice, though; Raritan is just one of the many (some anonymous now) contributors. > > Talk it over with your corporate masters, but considering you have an > entire product based on other people's generously donated free work it > might be a really great nice thing to give back. > > Makes people all warm and fuzzy and like your products in exchange. > > --- > Evil: http://www.zedshaw.com/ > Utu : http://savingtheinternetwithhate.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > -- Evan Weaver _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
