Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC for-1.0] Update copyright info

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Gerd just reminded me that we did ship 1.0 with a 2008 copyright notice.

Am 04.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Judging by -version output, one could get the impression that QEMU was
> last modified in 2008. Therefore extend the copyright statement to
> cover other contributors so that it can be updated to the current year.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>

Is my text change okay, so that I should extend the patch to cover
*-user as pointed out by Peter? Or is the change a no-go for legal or
libvirt reasons?

An alternative mentioned in this thread was:
Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard, Copyright (c) 200x-2011 s.o.

The former was intended as a short-term fix for 1.0.
I would prefer the latter mid-term since Fabrice doesn't hold any
copyright/IPR in the code after he left, but what year and what someone?

Opinions please,

Andreas

> ---
>  vl.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 624da0f..47e0ae0 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -1484,7 +1484,7 @@ static void main_loop(void)
>  
>  static void version(void)
>  {
> -    printf("QEMU emulator version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION ", Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard\n");
> +    printf("QEMU emulator version " QEMU_VERSION QEMU_PKGVERSION ", Copyright (c) 2003-2011 Fabrice Bellard and contributors\n");
>  }
>  
>  static void help(int exitcode)

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