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

[Andreas Färber]

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 contributors" 
> 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 Färber escribió:
> 
>> 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 <address@hidden>
>>
>> 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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