[openfabrics-ewg] Copyright review of OpenFabrics (user space)

Betsy Zeller betsy at pathscale.com
Wed May 24 18:15:28 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 17:24 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:

> 
> I don't follow that.  The file I referred to has no copyright notice,
The file I pulled up from
branches/1.0/src/userspace/libmthca/debian/rules
does have a one line copyright in it.

>  Are you
> seriously suggesting that a 2 byte file with contents "5" could be
> construed as an "original work of authorship?"  

I'm seriously suggesting that we make an explicit decision on how to
handle READMEs, TODOs, AUTHORS, and, yes, two character files. I'd
certainly agree with you that the two character file seems pretty
obvious.

- Betsy
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QLogic Corporation
System Interconnect Group
(formerly PathScale, Inc)
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