Hello Sichen Zhao, Copyright applies to any new code that you personally author. The conventional wisdom is that if you make 3 or more lines of new code in a file, then you have expressed some original thoughts/ideas in the code and a copyright existss so you can/should add your name. Changing existing code does not necessarily give you a copyright on it, and neither do mechanical changes i.e., code changes that do not express a thought. This is a fairly large grey area.
Gedare On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Sichen Zhao <zsc19940...@outlook.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a question about copyright in rtems-libbsd: i ported some usb driver > files from FreeBSD, i modified somewhere in these files to suit with > rtems-libbsd. Should i add my copyright in these file? > Besides, I also modified some files in the rtemsbsd folder,. Should i add my > copyright in these file? > > Best Regards > Sichen Zhao > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
