Hi Rafael, Rafael Neves wrote on Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:29:35PM +0100: > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 03:33:00PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> - Put the correct manual page author into the Copyright notice. > I think that I shouldn't be in the copyright notice, because thre > is no original work from me. I just copied the dwctwo(4) manpage > and tweaked it, it is why there is Visa name there. Technically, what you sent is a *derived work*. In that case, the original Copyright applies to the unchanged parts, and new Copyright comes into existence covering your changes, so in general, there should be two Copyright lines with different names. However, diffing the two files, i find that all that remains from the original file is this: .Os .Sh NAME .Sh SYNOPSIS .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm driver provides support for ... devices. .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr ehci 4 , .Xr ohci 4 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm driver first appeared in That is all boilerplate text, imho insufficient to establish Copyright, and besides, Visa explicitly confirmed that he does not recognize the file as containing any of his work any longer, after your changes. If you delete all original work from a file, you can delete the Copyright notice as well. On the other hand, adding your Copyright makes sense because you changed and added various lines of text containing actual content. So if the file is worthy of Copyright at all - which i think it is, creativity standards in Copyright are quite low - your name should be there. And even if the file as whole would not meet the creativity threshold, putting your Copyright header is better than having none because it avoids doubt. Do you still object? > I think it is like when you copy a source file and tweaks some > magic numbers, or use a whole file in some other place in the tree > with some modifications. It generally does not implies putting the > name in the copyright notice, what I think is correct. For minor changes in a substantial file, you are right. But in this case, non-boilerplate Copyrightable content is sparse in the first place, and you changed most of what there is. Yours, Ingo
