On Fri, Jun 21, 2024 at 02:07:52PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Fri, 21 Jun 2024 at 13:50, Peter Dave Hello <h...@peterdavehello.org> > wrote: > > On Wednesday, April 24th, 2024 at AM 2:20, Peter Dave Hello > > <h...@peterdavehello.org> wrote: > > > Thank you for all your help; I wonder if the copyright can just > > > belong to this project because the copyright to me personally in the > > > open source world just to deal with somebody violets the license. > > > Otherwise, I'm more copyleft. What do you think? > > > > I'm not sure if the previous mail has been dropped. I would really > > appreciate it if anyone could give me some advice. Thanks a lot! > > We can't give legal advice, but the QEMU project doesn't do > copyright assignment. Copyright remains with the original author > (or with their employer).
While we can't give legal advice, going back to the original question I have an observation that may resolve this. IIUC, the orignal question was what to put at the top of the .po file where it has: # Copyright (C) 2024 THE QEMU'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER I don't believe the QEMU community has any stated requirement that every file have a "Copyright" line present. Entirely omitting this line is a valid choice from QEMU's POV. What matters to QEMU primarily is that the file has a declared *license* statement. Any Copyright lines present are woefully inaccurate in most places, since they're rarely updated despite 100's of contributors working on a file. The respective contributors still retain copyright over their own work regardless of what a 'copyright' line says or doesn't say. IOW, the contributor (or their employer) may decide for themselves a policy of whether to include or omit such a "Copyright" line, on contributions submitted. With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
