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[Cheng Sheng <jeru.sheng@xxxxxxxxx>]

Good-to-know knowledge. Thanks for the education, Javier.

So if I do some minor changes to some file with "Copyright John Smith 2017"
and since it is minor I don't even bother adding a second line there, does
it imply "I'm passing my copyright ownership to John Smith" or actually the
copyright holder of these few changed lines must be looked up inside the
VCS history? Then this copy-right line doesn't fully tell the copyright
holder of the file anyway?

Regards,
Cheng

On 28 June 2017 at 15:19, Javier Serrano <javier.serrano.pareja@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> One more clarification: all files need a copyright notice which precedes
> the license notice. So something like "Copyright John Smith 2017" and then
> "This work is licensed under..." The reason is simple: copyrightable works
> start their life as "all rights reserved" by default. The only person who
> has the right to give extra permissions (such as copying, modifying, etc.)
> in the form of a license is the copyright holder. So I cannot take any file
> from the Internet and add a license header to it. I need to be the
> copyright holder for that file. And it makes sense that I clarify that with
> a copyright statement before the licensing paragraph.
>
> Hope it makes sense! Cheers,
>
> Javier
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Javier Serrano <
> javier.serrano.pareja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I forgot to answer this:
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Oliver Walters <
>> oliver.henry.walters@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Wayne, Maciej, et al,
>>>
>>> This has been sitting in my //todo for a while. Can I get some
>>> clarification on the LICENSE issue and then I will ensure it is applied to
>>> the repos:
>>>
>>> Am I correct in my understanding that the following text is ALL that is
>>> required (placed within a LICENSE file in each repo)?
>>>
>>> "This work is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 License.
>>>> To the extent that circuit schematics that use Licensed Material can be
>>>> considered to be ‘Adapted Material’, then the copyright holder waives
>>>> article 3.b of the license with respect to these schematics."
>>>
>>>
>>> Or is this an addendum required to be made and I am required to include
>>> the entire CC-BY-SA text?
>>>
>>>
>> No need to copy the entire CC-BY-SA text. The reference to it in the
>> notice we propose is enough.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Javier
>>
>
>
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