On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:57:33 +0200, Sami Kerola wrote: > On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 21:34, Guillem Jover <guillem@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 22:38:39 +0200, Sami Kerola wrote: > >> diff --git a/text-utils/column.c b/text-utils/column.c > >> index f5d41a2..b14583d 100644 > >> --- a/text-utils/column.c > >> +++ b/text-utils/column.c > >> @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ > >> /* > >> - * Copyright (c) 1989, 1993, 1994 > >> + * Copyright (c) 1989, 1993, 1994, 2009 > >> * The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. > >> * > >> * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without > > > > Did you actually assign your copyright to The Regents of the UC? > > Eh.. no. Here by I assign copyrights of the (rubbish) patch > (f5d41a2..b14583d 100644) I wrote to The Regents of the University of > California. If that is not good enough throw the patch to thrash bin > where it belongs. I don't think you can actually do that w/o involving them and a more formal process. But IANAL, etc. > If there are these 'copyrights has to be assigned' bombs in > util-linux-ng I propose that they would be listed in README.devel with > instructions how to fulfill qualifications of contributing. Yes, I > admit, there is that general copyright notice in source file, but I > did not realize I have to assign my rights to somewhere. Is fair to > say a newbie would never understand to do that without more specific > instructions? Hmm, should have clarified what I was implying. What I meant was that if you had not done a formal process to assign your copyright to them (which I didn't know), you should instead just add a new Copyright entry listing yourself as the holder. Sorry for the confusing comment. regards, guillem -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
