Re: Update to KDE Licence Policy

On Monday 06 August 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 06 August 2007 12:32, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 03:38:15PM +0200, Cornelius Schumacher wrote:
> >>> On Sunday 05 August 2007 12:40, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >>>> The other problem is much of our code is GPL 2 only (also LGPL 2
> >>>> only, but that doesn't matter as it can upgrade to GPL 2 or
> >>>> above).
> >>>
> >>> Do we have an overview of which exact parts of our code are GPL 2
> >>> only?
> >>
> >> http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/KDE-GPLv2-only
> >>
> >> and these people to persuade
> >>
> >> http://kubuntu.org/~jriddell/tmp/KDE-GPLv2-only-copyright-holders
> >
> > Just looking at the copyright headers is not sufficient. All people who
> > made a copyrightable contribution to a source file are copyright
> > holders (of portions of the source code). So you will also have to
> > check the svn log of all GPL 2 only licensed files.
>
> At what point has someone de-facto given away their copyright? For

actually, you can't. you have to actively assign it. there is no passive loss 
in copyright, which makes life very fun for film makers trying to use old 
footage, for instance.

> example, I've made some minor contributions to things here and there,

minor additions (a few lines of code, a spelling correct, etc) does not 
automatically grant you copyright.

really what needs to be done is to go through the log and discard trivial 
commits. =/

> Another problem arises when one person does not create an original work,
> i.e. an svn commit consists of someone taking someone else's code from
> one place and adding it elsewhere. The svn log does not correctly

hopefully that person would own up to it, or at least mention it in the log. 
perhaps we need a standard way to note such a thing in svn log messages.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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