On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 04:29:53PM -0500, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On a side note, something which is rather important, I noticed on quite a few of these files you guys had removed judd's name in the copyright, and added your own. If I'm not mistaken, this is a rather severe GPL violation - something along the lines of "permission is granted as long as this copyright remains in tact". Please fix this.
you can find a script called copyright.py in the patch, that was used to fix up the copyrights. as far as i know Judd's name was only removed where the author of the file was Aurelien or me (like libalpm/server.c) if you think somewhere it was removed where it should not be, then probably the cvs logs are incorrect but feel free to came up with a list of "invalid" removes adding proper copyright lines are a lot of time and when (according to the cvs logs) judd never touched a file, i don't think he should be in the copyright list. see the kernel source, you can't find Linus' name in every file and of course the basic purpose of the while copyright update is to appropriate Aurelien's and others' work, not hiding Judd's one, i hope this is clear :) udv / greetings, VMiklos -- Developer of Frugalware Linux, to make things frugal - http://frugalware.org