On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 01:45:03PM +0000, Peter Dave Hello wrote: > 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?
Yes, that is acceptable. 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 :|
