On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 18:28 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > > By putting such a boilerplate at the start of the file without some > > acknowledgement of its past history, they are effectively saying that > > their copyright extends to everything in the file. That's certainly > > not the case; take a moment to consider how you'd feel if someone threw > > their copyright boilerplate on a file you'd written. > > There is git history on it. Anyone that looks at the git history would > know right off we didn't write the whole file. There's nothing stopping > other copyright holders from adding their copyright on top of ours. I think it is far more logical to view it the other way around: you don't need to add your own copyright notice for minor changes to every files you touch as the Git history already captures your contribution credits. Again, it is best to keep copyright notices to files you create yourself, or files that you significantly enhanced and/or rewrote (like 50% of the original content was replaced or the like). Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
