From: Kévin FERRARE <kevin.ferrare.ml_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 14:16:25 +0200

Ok, and what if I merged the content of 2 files in one new ?
which author should I put on the header ?
What does the copyright refers to ? the file or the content ?
What if I created a new file with some code from other files and some
of my code in it ?

I asked several times on the IRC channel, and I was told do do like
that, I don't intend to steal the property of rockbox code


Also, I can obviously remove my name, but I think it would be more
fair and more convenient to have a list of authors for a file like I
saw in several others open source projetcs

example in the linux kernel for a file taken randomly
/*
 * $Id: bttv.h,v 1.22 2005/07/28 18:41:21 mchehab Exp $
 *
 * bttv - Bt848 frame grabber driver
 *
 * card ID's and external interfaces of the bttv driver
 * basically stuff needed by other drivers (i2c, lirc, ...)
 * and is supported not to change much over time.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 1996,97 Ralph Metzler (rjkm_at_thp.uni-koeln.de)
 * (c) 1999,2000 Gerd Knorr <kraxel_at_goldbach.in-berlin.de>
 *
 */

What do you think about that ?


On 10/29/05, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_rockbox.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, cvs_at_labb.contactor.se wrote:
>
> > - * Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg (2002), Kévin FERRARE (2005)
> > + * Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg (2002), Kevin FERRARE (2005)
>
> Let me clarify something here, Kevin.
>
> You adding to or changing an existing file _does not_ make you an additional
>
> copyright holder of the file. The original copyright holder still holds the
>
> copyright of the file even if you've changed it.
>
> If everyone who changed the files would add themselves to the copyright
> lines
> as you have, it would quicky become rather silly.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://www.rockbox.org/ -- http://daniel.haxx.se/
>
Received on 2005-10-29