On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:44:26PM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
I will go through and determine exactly which files are patched by you, and apply the authors name to the copyright in CVS.
thanks! as soon as you have done this, i'll pull all the headers from cvs and drop our own
This will waste my time, sure. If you guys would like, you can feel free to waive your rights on existing code in CVS, giving copyright ownership to Judd, though I doubt you'd do that.
is it possible to share the copyright ownership? when i first contributed to OpenOffice.org, i had to sign the jca: http://www.openoffice.org/licenses/jca.pdf quoting http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-licensing.html#jcaa: "Under the Joint Copyright Assignment, both Sun and the contributor retain full rights to use, modify, and redistribute the copyrighted work." this is a bit better: Judd has still the full copyright (as he wished) but if i would like to re-use my own code in some other projects, then i can do using the license i wish. ie.: if i want to contribute our regex-search function to a bsd-licensed project, it won't be a problem
From now on, all patches must explicitly waive the author's copyright claim in order to be accepted into pacman.
okay, thanks for clarifying this. if you think this is agood idea, then mention this in a COPYRIGHT file (or something like that) in the cvs udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org