On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at AM 1:06, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > 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.
Thanks for the solution! So, to confirm, I will send PATCH v2 with the other metadata fixes but without the "Copyright" line. Is that correct? Best wishes, Peter
