Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread wlan
> So the question that florian asks is whether we can assume that by > leaving in the copyright notice, the author assigned copyright to the > project. > Yeah, sorry - I was more commenting on the subsequent comments. But, no, I am pretty certain that is not the case without an explicit copyri

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread Felix Fietkau
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm no lawyer, but you can never 'take' over the copyright without a > legal agreement (or otherwise imply that OpenWrt is the sole > copyright holder). As far as I know, you can 'add' a copyright right > notice, but that still doesn't diminish the original authors

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread wlan
I'm no lawyer, but you can never 'take' over the copyright without a legal agreement (or otherwise imply that OpenWrt is the sole copyright holder). As far as I know, you can 'add' a copyright right notice, but that still doesn't diminish the original authors rights to the contribution. Wit

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread Gregers Petersen
Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi devs, > > We received quite a lot of contributions that got merged to our subversion > repository. I was wondering how we should treat those contributions, > especially Makefiles. > > Shall we have a double copyright, both OpenWrt and the original author, or > ju

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread Imre Kaloz
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 11:17:04 +0200, Florian Fainelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > We received quite a lot of contributions that got merged to our > subversion > repository. I was wondering how we should treat those contributions, > especially Makefiles. > > Shall we have a double

Re: [OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread Felix Fietkau
Florian Fainelli wrote: > Hi devs, > > We received quite a lot of contributions that got merged to our subversion > repository. I was wondering how we should treat those contributions, > especially Makefiles. > > Shall we have a double copyright, both OpenWrt and the original author, or > just

[OpenWrt-Devel] Copyright in packages Makefiles

2007-07-26 Thread Florian Fainelli
Hi devs, We received quite a lot of contributions that got merged to our subversion repository. I was wondering how we should treat those contributions, especially Makefiles. Shall we have a double copyright, both OpenWrt and the original author, or just the OpenWrt copyright, since by submitt