From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:43:52 GMT Subject: Re: On Sponsor Notices Message-ID: <46a038f90809241643i1e366dfbtea8dbdd9a1bc1de5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080924225120.GL10544@machine.or.cz> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Petr Baudis wrote: > to follow up a little on the "This patch has been sponsored by > Novartis" messages - I have been on a summer internship at Novartis busy > deploying Git and these patches (still quite a few more to come, mostly > for gitweb) have been one of the main outputs of that work. In my case, if the contribution is done at the behest of a client the copyright is theirs (they paid for my work, and it's a "work for hire" in legal terms). So - if the contribution is large, I tend to add a copyright line (see git-cvsserver: copyright != authors, though that's out of date now) - they probably have to provide sign-off, so s-o-b line is appropriate > However, I'm not sure if acknowledging the Novartis-originated patches > in the log message like this is the best practice and we will understand > if the maintainers will decide to strip these notices when applying the > patches. AIUI, the signed-off-by line is meant to track this, and it serves both legal purposes and a as recognition. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff