Copyright removed

[rjc]

Hi,

In the last commit you had changed the license from MIT/X one to an MPLv2.0.

At the same time you had removed all of the copyright notices of the original authors.

The original license clearly states that you're to do whatever you like with the software, as long as you include said copyright notice.

The source files only contain reference to the LICENSE file.

It looks like you might be in violation of the original authors' copyright.

Regards,

rjc

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I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know, anybody should be able to fork MIT license projects and attach a stricter license. I'll look for a way to resolve this issue.

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I'm not a lawyer, but as far as I know, anybody should be able to fork MIT license projects and attach a stricter license. I'll look for a way to resolve this issue.

[rjc]

Like I've stated above, one can do whatever they wish with the software as long as they don't claim they're the original author - I specifically mentioned copyright, not license, violation.

[rjc]

Like I've stated above, one can do whatever they wish with the software as long as they don't claim they're the original author - I specifically mentioned copyright, not license, violation.

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Although I think the commits serve as copyrights according to C4, I added copyrights to README.

C4 states that

All patches are owned by their authors. There SHALL NOT be any copyright assignment process.

Thus, the mere existence of their commits automatically gives them copyrights.

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Although I think the commits serve as copyrights according to C4, I added copyrights to README.

C4 states that

All patches are owned by their authors. There SHALL NOT be any copyright assignment process.

Thus, the mere existence of their commits automatically gives them copyrights.

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I just realized that C4 automatically assigns copyrights to commit authors. Thus, I removed copyright from README to remove redundancy.

Do you think it's good?

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I just realized that C4 automatically assigns copyrights to commit authors. Thus, I removed copyright from README to remove redundancy.

Do you think it's good?

[rjc]

I know nothing of C4 but the commits, which you have mentioned, are only available if ones is to use a repository with all of its history intact. None of that information will be available in a release tarball.

The easiest way to avoid any issues is to retain the current license :^)

Otherwise you may need to copy the old copyright notices, most likely with its old license, into each and every source file which contained the reference to the LICENSE file - you can of course keep the refeference as it already points to the new license... but I'm not a lawyer either :^P

[rjc]

I know nothing of C4 but the commits, which you have mentioned, are only available if ones is to use a repository with all of its history intact. None of that information will be available in a release tarball.

The easiest way to avoid any issues is to retain the current license :^)

Otherwise you may need to copy the old copyright notices, most likely with its old license, into each and every source file which contained the reference to the LICENSE file - you can of course keep the refeference as it already points to the new license... but I'm not a lawyer either :^P

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If you think this project got the copyrights wrong, you could submit a pull request.

This copyright thing is beyond my mental bandwidth for now at least.

I'll merge a pull request anyway if it doesn't look crazy.

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If you think this project got the copyrights wrong, you could submit a pull request.

This copyright thing is beyond my mental bandwidth for now at least.

I'll merge a pull request anyway if it doesn't look crazy.

[rjc]

Copyright is a serious matter and I wouldn't leave it like that as this usually doesn't end well for the fork.

Just my $0.02.

[rjc]

Copyright is a serious matter and I wouldn't leave it like that as this usually doesn't end well for the fork.

Just my $0.02.

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Although I could add it back myself, I would like a contributor to add it.
I prefer it that way. I'll wait for some time for a contributor feedback in the form of pull request.

Maybe, if no one sends a pull request for a while, I'll add it back.

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Although I could add it back myself, I would like a contributor to add it.
I prefer it that way. I'll wait for some time for a contributor feedback in the form of pull request.

Maybe, if no one sends a pull request for a while, I'll add it back.

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I am very new to this copyright business, so I was somewhat careless.
FRIGN, a suckless member, told me it was necessary to have the original copyright information below MPLv2. I'll do that very soon and close this.

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I am very new to this copyright business, so I was somewhat careless.
FRIGN, a suckless member, told me it was necessary to have the original copyright information below MPLv2. I'll do that very soon and close this.

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This one is closed by d56c018

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This one is closed by d56c018