On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:55:38 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > On Thursday 25 September 2008, Michael Schwendt wrote: > > > I wonder even more why rpmdev-bumpspec says > > > > Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Red Hat Inc. > > > > which is not correct. 2005 may be true for its origin, the pre-Fedora > > Extras era. For the first mass-rebuilds and beyond that it was developed > > further by me, and just because I don't want to claim full copyright, > > it should not be given to Red Hat for 2006-2008. That sounds very wrong > > to me, because nobody at Red Hat has been an author of changes to the > > script in those years. > > This was discussed in several mails between you, me and notting in March when > I was about to add the script in rpmdevtools. I asked you to add copyright > notices to the script, and you added it but without mentioning a copyright > holder. I've found those mails, but they don't cover such a very specific copyright line that differs from the one I called "reasonable". It's simply not accurate. > When discussing it further, you concluded "(c) Fedora Project ... sounds > reasonable. Who is/are the original author(s)? [...]" Because I'm not a lawyer, and the script is derived work based on something that didn't have any legal stuff attached to it at all. I wrote the following and added Bill: : (c) Fedora Project ... sounds reasonable. : : Who is/are the original author(s)? The skeleton of the original code is : still present. If memory serves correctly, the first version of the script : was given out by someone at Red Hat for the pre-Fedora Extras 3 period and : then improved for the first mass-rebuilds. But who exactly was the original : author, I don't know. notting or sopwith or mkj or gafton? Neither one? You see? With an existing list of authors, I could have added myself. But claiming full copyright and credits [for any original bits that may be left] is an entirely different thing. > and did not mention > that you would like to have your name there. I don't care about my name in there. I don't get my name attached to lots of patches for F/LOSS either. And this is just a script that can be rewritten from scratch if someone insists on doing that. > To your question (which > mentioned someone at Red Hat giving it out for the pre-Fedora Extras 3 > period), Bill answered "If it was given out by someone @RH, you can just put > (c) Red Hat on it." and there were no further replies. True, but Bill apparently was the wrong one to ask. And a different proposal was made earlier, too. However, the added line changes history. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
