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Re: Changes to "Contribution Checklist" -- Format of the contribution.
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2019 23:02:43 +0100
- Subject: Re: Changes to "Contribution Checklist" -- Format of the contribution.
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* Carlos O'Donell:
> I wondered this also and I spoke with DJ about this with regards to
> US law. The best we could figure is that there has to be some country
> where copyright assignment and authorship are two distinct items.
> You can assign copyright, but authorship remains yours, and cannot
> be removed. Removing a name might be seen as the equivalent of removing
> authorship. I don't know if this is true, the ChangeLog and VCS all
> contain authorship information for the file anyway, so I think we might
> be able to remove "Contributed by" statements to avoid confusion.
>
> IANAL. I think we might need legal advice here.
Agreed.
If you want to read up on this, key phrases are “moral rights” and
“droit d'auteur”.
Thanks,
Florian