Copyright notices (or the lack thereof) in kernel code
Copyright notices (or the lack thereof) in kernel code
Posted Oct 29, 2022 20:20 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Copyright notices (or the lack thereof) in kernel code by mathstuf
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And what everyone here is missing (and I made clear in my comment) you can NOT use the "author" commit to identify the copyright holder. You MUST EXplicitly specify the copyright holder if you want to know who the copyright holder is.
A LOT of contributors do not own the copyright in their contributions. I've got a feeling I might soon need to sort out that mess in ScarletDME ...
Cheers,
Wol
Posted Oct 30, 2022 5:18 UTC (Sun)
by pabs (subscriber, #43278)
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Copyright notices (or the lack thereof) in kernel code
Obligatory reminder for those who don't hold copyright over the open source that they write for their employer to please renegotiate your employment contract to change that and other things: