Copyright notice referring a company other than Sun (original) (raw)

Anthony Petrov Anthony.Petrov at Sun.COM
Thu Jun 18 11:56:37 PDT 2009

Mark, Phil, thanks for the answers! So I'll just add another line mentioning Sun as the copyright holder next to the Red Hat's line.

-- best regards, Anthony

On 6/18/2009 9:17 PM Phil Race wrote:

Quoting the SCA :

"you agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and exercise all ownership rights associated with it;" So whilst I'm not a lawyer, I'd say that means that all code contributed to OpenJDK under SCA can have a full Sun copyright - and probably should have that explicitly in the source file. Not just for the new portions, but for all of it. -phil. Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi Anthony,

On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 20:01 +0400, Anthony Petrov wrote: The test needs to be slightly modified by Sun's engineers. Should the copyright notice be modified as well? Like adding "Portions copyrighted by Sun ... "? Or is it OK to leave it as is?

If it should be modified, could someone please provide the exact phrase that needs to be inserted in the legal statement in the beginning of the source file? Thanks! It is OK to leave it as is and just add a new Copyright line for your/Sun's contributions with your normal standard phrasing. Just add it above or below the other line. You can never remove copyright statements from other contributors, everybody keeps their own copyright, but you can always add your own. There are lots of files already that have multiple copyright statements from different people/companies in the repository already. Cheers, Mark

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