Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] send-email: extract execute_cmd from recipients_cmd

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: May 2, 2023, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <645158de9d0d0_1ba2d294a6@chronos.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <87h6t3pyn1.fsf@gmail.com>

Maxim Cournoyer wrote:

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> Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Apr 25, 2023 at 12:46 PM Maxim Cournoyer
> > <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl
> >> @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
> >>  # Copyright 2002,2005 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
> >>  # Copyright 2005 Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
> >> +# Copyright 2023 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
> >
> > Let's avoid this change, please. Many people have worked on this file
> > over the years -- often making changes far more substantial than those
> > made by this patch series -- who have not staked such a claim.
> 
> I don't mind to drop this hunk if it's unwelcome/not current practice.

In most open source projects the practice is that only the top one or two contributors are mentioned.

> it's still enough of a change to be protected by copyright though, but
> I don't mind too much.

My understanding is that your work is protected by copyright laws regardless of whether or not a copyright notice exists. Not that it would matter much in practice though, because the cases where copyright matters in open source projects is very fringe.

Cheers.

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Felipe Contreras