Hi,
The following caught my eye:
https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2016-January/014686.html
> + at c Copyright @copyright{} 2015 Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Development LP
Which lead me to finding http://patchwork.quagga.net/patch/1800/ aka
https://lists.quagga.net/pipermail/quagga-dev/2016-January/014712.html
+You are encouraged add any applicable copyright claims to files being
+modified or added. The standard way is to add a string in the following
+format near the beginning of the file:
+
+ Copyright (C) <Year> <name of person/entity>[, optional contact details]
+
The added copyright statement in the 1st mail conforms with the 2nd mail
(change to HACKING.md), but the result of the 1st is to add a Copyright
where non has existed before -- which reads to me as if the Copyright is
covering the whole file -- clearly not a desired (or probably intended)
result.
It seems to me that at most a modification to an existing quagga file
should says is "Portions Copyright...."
My personal (and company's) approach is to add no new statement on files
we modify, and to add a Copyright statement on files we create without
derivative content. (See bgp_encap.c for an example of a file we
created *with* significant derivative content.)
So my question is:
What's the right answer?
- Adding an unqualified Copyright following
http://patchwork.quagga.net/patch/1800/
- Adding "Portions Copyright ..."
- Treating all modifications as Derivative Works and non-copyrightable
- Requiring a new file for any new Copyrighted material
- Something else
I think at very least, the Copyright statement above and HACKING.md
should be modified to say Portions...
Does anyone else care/have an opinion? (If not, I'll submit a patch to
HACKING.md adding the word "Portions".)
Cheers,
Lou
PS I had an off line discussion with Paul on this topic which lead to
this mail
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