On 2 February 2011 09:23, Cyrille Berger Skott <cber...@cberger.net> wrote: > On Wednesday 02 February 2011, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote: >> You have to copy any new copyrights too to every single relevant file >> even if currently, after a number of commits there is no single >> character of code by 'the other commiters'. Whis is also obligation in >> the opposite way, so it's not our wish but requirement of the license. > Huh ? No :) Or I did not understand what you meant. > If you have: > r3 by Jaroslaw > r2 by Cyrille > r1 by Casper > > at r1 file is copyrighted by Casper > at r2 file is copyrighted by Casper, Cyrille > at r3 file is copyrighted by Casper, Cyrille and Jaroslaw > > If someone takes the change at r2, it does not have to put Jaroslaw's > copyright, only mine.
true What I mean is this: > at r1 file is copyrighted by Casper > at r2 file is copyrighted by Casper, Cyrille > at r3 file is copyrighted by Casper, Cyrille and Jaroslaw (and Jaroslaw did > remove all Cyrille's code as apparently shorter solution has been found, BUT > Jaroslaw did this by looking at Cyrille's code as inspiration to this > change). So Cyrille's copyright remains in r3. In calligra it's already in > the file in r3 of course but what I propose is to keep in mind the implicit > rule: if someone applies a diff between r3 and r1 to a 3rd-party project, > copyrights have to be kept even if there's no Cyrille's code in the r3-r1 > diff. I know this is obvious to us now (since that was raised already in > koffice times). In koffice times nobody has removed copyright with one > notable exception. Just double checking so every maintainer of a given code > knows that even this case is protected. In reallity, it is not as easy, since most people forget > to edit the copyright when making their change and add their copyright > later... In which case it might be safer to add all copyrights. Exactly, in the example, the merge-to-the-3rdparty project would happen before delayed adding 'Cyrille's copyright to the r2'. In that case it would be our fault so the only way is: let's keep own copyright controlled before it's too late. -- regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek http://www.linkedin.com/in/jstaniek Kexi & Calligra (kexi-project.org, identi.ca/kexi, calligra-suite.org) KDE Software Development Platform on MS Windows (windows.kde.org) _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
