[libvirt] [PATCH] xenconfig: Remove references to my name and email

[David Kiarie]

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 10:38:59AM +0200, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 08:51:01 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 09, 2018 at 09:14:29AM +0300, David Kiarie wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This is okay but this definitely wrong. And it does indeed sound
> wrong. And
> > > > it will always sound wrong.
> > > >
> > > > Being involved in a GSoC project is not about contributions. And also
> > > > considering the scale of our project(some of the code even never got
> > > > merged). There was a lot of research, design, planning,
> implementation,
> > > > review and finally the code got merged.
> > > >
> > > > I should at least be able to copyright the file. I mean, Jim was my
> mentor,
> > > > I did most of the work but his company copyright is right at the top
> of the
> > > > file - Does this sound okay to you ?
> > >
> > > You own copyright on any contributions you make, regardless of what any
> > > Copyright statement at the top of the file says. Just like the Author
> > > lines in file headers, these Copyright lines in source files are at
> best
> > > outdated and incomplete. Anyone who wishes to identify the copyright
> > > ownership has no choice but to look at the git history which records
> > > exactly who wrote what.
> >
> > Soo, can we also delete the "Copyright ..." lines from the top of the
> > license statement? That's a cleanup which I'll gladly do.
>
> No, you can not delete other people's Copyright lines - they are considered
> part of the license notice so can only be altered by the copyright holder.
>

Suse copyright notice has been on this file since the day this file got
merged. To be honest, I did most of the original work so why should Suse
copyright appear here while me doesn't ?


>
> The Author lines are not part of the license notice so that's free to be
> modified or removed.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
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