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

Aviram Gutman aviram at mellanox.co.il
Fri May 26 06:16:22 PDT 2006


Can one of the marketing people check with a lawyer what is the right
policy?

 


Regards,
   Aviram

-----Original Message-----
From: openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org
[mailto:openfabrics-ewg-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Betsy Zeller
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 4:15 AM
To: Roland Dreier
Cc: openfabrics-ewg at openib.org
Subject: Re: [openfabrics-ewg] Copyright review of OpenFabrics (user
space)

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
--
Betsy Zeller
Director of Software Engineering
QLogic Corporation
System Interconnect Group
(formerly PathScale, Inc)
2071 Stierlin Court, Suite 200
Mountain View, CA, 94043
1-650-934-8088

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