Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-02-03 Thread David Kastrup
Andreas Ericsson writes: > On 2014-01-31 14:04, David Kastrup wrote: >> >> I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c >> internals. Now there are various questions regarding the final patch >> proposals and commit messages. >> >> Point 1) signing off implies that

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-02-03 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 2014-01-31 14:04, David Kastrup wrote: > > I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c > internals. Now there are various questions regarding the final patch > proposals and commit messages. > > Point 1) signing off implies that I'm fine with the licensing of the

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Lang
6:16 +0100 From: David Kastrup To: Jonathan Nieder Cc: git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: A few contributor's questions Jonathan Nieder writes: I assume the problem you're trying to solve is that files don't have clear enough notices of their licensing. No, just the file that

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jonathan Nieder writes: > I assume the problem you're trying to solve is that files don't have > clear enough notices of their licensing. No, just the file that I'm contributing to. It has a single copyright attribution that arguably is already less than accurate _unless_ the respective authors

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, David Kastrup wrote: > Also whether or not this implies an assignment of copyright, it is a > reasonable assumption for [...] Since I think we've completely gone off the rails: I assume the problem you're trying to solve is that files don't have clear enough notices of their licensing. Tha

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
Jonathan Nieder writes: > Also keep in mind that you don't need a copyright notice to own > copyright, that it would be crazy for someone to claim you've assigned > copyright on your changes without an explicit reassignment, Not at all crazy: Documentation/SubmittingPatches states that adding a

Re: A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, David Kastrup wrote: > builtin/blame.c merely states > > /* > * Blame > * > * Copyright (c) 2006, Junio C Hamano > */ I think you planned to make substantial changes, so > /* > * Blame > * > * Copyright (c) 2006--2014, Junio C Hamano and others > * Licensed under GPLv2. See G

A few contributor's questions

2014-01-31 Thread David Kastrup
I'm still in the process of finishing the rewrite of the builtin/blame.c internals. Now there are various questions regarding the final patch proposals and commit messages. Point 1) signing off implies that I'm fine with the licensing of the file. builtin/blame.c merely states /* * Blame * *