Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:58:45 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rwatson@FreeBSD.org Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, jeff@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r187580 - head/tools/sched Message-ID: <20090122.155845.-928179489.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901221846230.66510@fledge.watson.org> References: <200901220621.n0M6LU5v002745@svn.freebsd.org> <20090122.104114.1927899760.imp@bsdimp.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901221846230.66510@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:
:
: > In message: <200901220621.n0M6LU5v002745@svn.freebsd.org>
: > Jeff Roberson <jeff@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: > : Author: jeff
: > : Date: Thu Jan 22 06:21:30 2009
: > : New Revision: 187580
: > : URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/187580
: > :
: > : Log:
: > : - Update my copyright.
: > : +# Copyright (c) 2002-2003, 2009, Jeffrey Roberson <jeff@freebsd.org>
: >
: > Stylistically, this should be 2002-2009. We don't need to list each and
: > every year, so the project's policy is to list the earliest and the latest
: > year.
: >
: > See, for example, http://www.oppedahl.com/copyrights/ for the reasoning
: > behind this.
:
: FWIW, the one case where I don't really do that is when I worked on some code
: on my own and hence hold the copyright for it, then did some work under a
: contract for a customer on it such that they own the copyright on
: enhancements, and then I do some further work on my own. In that case, I'll
: leave a discontinuity to reflect the fact that the copyright on changes made
: in the gap were assigned elsewhere. Not clear this is the right thing to do,
: but I'm fairly sure at least some of my customers are more comfortable with
: that as it leaves no confusion in the source as to which bits they
: sponsored/own.
True, but that's a fairly rare circumstance relative to the project as
a whole.
Warner
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