Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-02-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 2014-01-31 14:04, David Kastrup wrote: I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c internals. Now there are various questions regarding the final patch proposals and commit messages. Point 1) signing off implies that I'm fine with the licensing of the

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-02-03 Thread David Kastrup
Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se writes: On 2014-01-31 14:04, David Kastrup wrote: I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c internals. Now there are various questions regarding the final patch proposals and commit messages. Point 1) signing off implies that

A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c internals. Now there are various questions regarding the final patch proposals and commit messages. Point 1) signing off implies that I'm fine with the licensing of the file. builtin/blame.c merely states /* * Blame *

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, David Kastrup wrote: builtin/blame.c merely states /* * Blame * * Copyright (c) 2006, Junio C Hamano */ I think you planned to make substantial changes, so /* * Blame * * Copyright (c) 2006--2014, Junio C Hamano and others * Licensed under GPLv2. See Git's

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: Also keep in mind that you don't need a copyright notice to own copyright, that it would be crazy for someone to claim you've assigned copyright on your changes without an explicit reassignment, Not at all crazy: Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, David Kastrup wrote: Also whether or not this implies an assignment of copyright, it is a reasonable assumption for [...] Since I think we've completely gone off the rails: I assume the problem you're trying to solve is that files don't have clear enough notices of their licensing. That

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: I assume the problem you're trying to solve is that files don't have clear enough notices of their licensing. No, just the file that I'm contributing to. It has a single copyright attribution that arguably is already less than accurate _unless_ the

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Lang
: David Kastrup d...@gnu.org To: Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A few contributor's questions Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com writes: I assume the problem you're trying to solve is that files don't have clear enough notices of their licensing. No, just