[LEDE-DEV] copyright questions

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Tue May 10 00:44:24 PDT 2016


On 10 May 2016 at 09:15, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de> writes:
>> On 05/09/2016 10:19 PM, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>>
>>> How do you ensure that they use the code only like you intended after you donated it?
>> This copyright notice is useless. The copyright will stay at the
>> individual author. At least in Germany it would not be possible for me
>> to give the copyright to OpenWrt or LEDE as OpenWrt and LEDE do not pay
>> me based on the hours I work, or in any other way.
>
> OK, that makes sense.  But it makes me wonder even more about the
> reasons for putting that misleading copyright statement there.  It would
> be less confusing if you just named the project without the "Copyright"
> prefix.

I agree after reviewing this, I just posted
bcm53xx: drop Copyright header from two of my bash scripts
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/620287/



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