From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:52991) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWWEU-0006Rb-Re for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:45:08 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWWET-0002sO-0Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:45:06 -0500 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36479 helo=mx2.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RWWES-0002qj-L2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:45:04 -0500 Message-ID: <4ED9005A.5080502@suse.de> Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:44:10 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1320429404-3796-1-git-send-email-afaerber@suse.de> <4ED8EA95.4030004@suse.de> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC for-1.0] Update copyright info List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Natalia Portillo Cc: Peter Maydell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Thanks for your comment. >>> Copyright (c) 2003-2011 Fabrice Bellard and contributors >> Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard, Copyright (c) 200x-2011 s.o. Am 02.12.2011 16:25, schrieb Natalia Portillo: > Fabrice by the european copyright laws still have copyright and ipr in = any code he generated whatever we have changed as per the "multiple contr= ibutors" section of the european laws. No one suggested removing his copyright. But to my understanding Fabrice has no 2009+ copyright on derived works. That's why the copyright wasn't updated all those years, I guess. Andreas > El 02/12/2011, a las 15:11, Andreas F=E4rber escribi=F3: >=20 >> Gerd just reminded me that we did ship 1.0 with a 2008 copyright notic= e. >> >> Am 04.11.2011 18:56, schrieb Andreas F=E4rber: >>> Judging by -version output, one could get the impression that QEMU wa= s >>> last modified in 2008. Therefore extend the copyright statement to >>> cover other contributors so that it can be updated to the current yea= r. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Andreas F=E4rber >> >> 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 someon= e? >> >> 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) --=20 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=F6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=FCrnbe= rg