Re: Re-license libkopete?

On Tuesday 01 April 2003 07:09, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On April 1, 2003 12:58 am, Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett wrote:
> > Most classes in libkopete are copyrighted by Martijn and me (other forgot
>
> ...
>
> > Ryan (logger), lilachaze (using
>
> This bring sup a question I have RE copyrights / licensing. I just
> re-wroute the whole logging system from scratch... save for the widgets,
> the old code is gone. Now, in kopetemessagelog.cpp, it still has Ryan as
> the credit at the top. Am I supposed to remove him from the credits because
> none of the code is his anymore? Or just add myself?
>
> I am not speaking out of any kind of "I want all the credit!!!" attitude or
> anything, I just mean legally / license wise, is his name supposed to be
> there? if not, isn't there tons of places throughout the code in a similar
> situation?

I think we'd better bring this up on kde-licensing (CC-ed), because a side 
effect of this is what happens with code from someone who didn't contribute 
since ages (Ryan Cumming, Hendrik vom Lehn, Andres Krapf and Richard 
Stellingwerff come to mind).

If CVS annotate shows their username the code is certainly in use. But what if 
it does not? And if someone reindented a file or did something similar how 
can you reliably find out if the original contribution is still there? Do we 
need their approval before relicensing libkopete to LGPL or can we go right 
ahead?

-- 
Martijn