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

[David Kiarie]

On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:18 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 1:15 PM, David Kiarie <davidkiarie4 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> On Wed, May 9, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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 outdated and incomplete.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.
>>>
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>> 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 ?
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> Contrary to the fact that most libvirt developers work for a company, this
> was mostly independent work.
>

And I totally don't have a problem with Suse copyrighting the file but why
can't I do the same ?

Or, would you rather I use the pseudonym 'Oneko Ltd'  instead of just
'Oneko' ?


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>>> 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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