On 12-02-09 08:47 PM, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I'll let you add the copyright statement and the license license text
>> in each source file. You may post a patch with just one file in case
>> there are some misunderstanding. I'll review it. Another angle to
>> having proper licensing is that it protects the code itself as free
>> software. The X.Org preferred license says you can do whatever you
>> want but it comes with the obligation of letting others do whatever
>> they want as well.
> I have just added copyright statement and update accordingly COPYING
> file, and committed it to my personal repository[0]. Let me know if
> that's ok and I will push it to the main repository now that I have the
> permissions to do so.
>
> Regards,
Great, just one nit, looking at the xserver which has had to solve this
issue in the past, the Copyright word should appear for each copyright
holder, even if it is the same year.
For example:
Copyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc
Copyright © 2008 George Sapountzis <[email protected]>
With that fixed,
Reviewed-by: Gaetan Nadon<[email protected]>
Thanks, this will formalize credit to the authors and protect free software.
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