On 1/3/26 15:44, Dave Hansen wrote:
On 12/19/25 13:26, Daniel P. Smith wrote:
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I also seem to remember that there are special rules around the US
federal government's inability to hold copyrights. This seems worth at
least a mention ... somewhere.
IANAL either, but in general the safest/correct approach is to retain
any CRs placed on the code being reused, and the above is the CR on the
source from the Xen tree.
Yeah, in general, that's a good thing to do.
But I'm puzzled by your response. Are you making an attempt to justify
the past choice to copy the copyrights verbatim? Or are you declining to
follow my request to involve your companies' legal experts given that
you used the "safest/correct approach"?
My apologies that it came across like I was rebuffing your request. I
was just trying to inform as to why it was there. Yes, we are working to
determine the answer to your concern and what should be the correct
course of action.
FWIW, I don't think what you did was bad here. You _did_ use a quite
reasonable approach in the case that a copyright was copied verbatim
from an existing legitimate* project.
* I'll give Xen the benefit of the doubt just this one time and put it
in the "legitimate" bucket. :P
As a Xen contributor/maintainer, thanks ... I think. (^_^)
V/r,
dps
