On Mon, 2010-03-29 at 14:51 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > 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. Git history captures who wrote the code, not who owns the code. I work for QuiC (Qualcomm Innovation Center) , however, the copyright is "Code Aurora Forum" .. The git history may list me as "@codeaurora.com" or "@quicinc.com" , so given that you really can't be sure of the copyright just with git history. Daniel -- 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
