Updating license and copyright in file headers

Martin Geisler mg at lazybytes.net
Tue Apr 21 10:58:26 CDT 2009


Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> writes:

> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:45:35 -0400, Greg Ward <greg-hg at gerg.ca> wrote:
>> Note also that this brings up the whole issue of assigning copyright.
>> Personally, I would be perfectly happy to sign a form that says
>> "anything I contribute or have contributed to Mercurial is property of
>> X".  X could be "Matt Mackall" or "Mercurial Inc" or "the FSF" or "the
>> PSF" ... I don't really care.
>
> +1
>
> I would definitely sign paperwork to assign copyrights of any changes
> to a legal entity whose explicit goal is to keep Mercurial free
> software.

Me too, but I'm afraid it will make contributions more complicated.
Today people drop a patch on the list and we push it if it's good. This
rapid feedback loop is very important, IMHO.

-- 
Martin Geisler

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