On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 4:47 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't know, the above looks like pretty generic boilerplate, and I'd
> rather not accumulate a that kind of thing every time we move a
> significant piece of code around. Could we compromise by adding a line
> or two to net/sunrpc/svc.c following the existing convention there?
> ("backchannel implementation originally (c) 2007 Network Appliance and
> (c) 2009 Netapp", or similar?) Not a lawyer either, just looking for a
> way to keep it both honest and concise....
>
For significant contributions, we do sometimes allow contributors to
add a copyright notice. The other case where it is usually done is
when creating a new file, on the theory that the GPL does require that
code be copyrighted in order to be enforceable.
I'd suggest just a simple:
"Portions of this code are (c) 2007 Network Appliance, (c) 2009 NetApp".
Trond
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