Hi Sergey, On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 11:26 AM, Sergey Kirpichev <skirpic...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Ondřej Čertík <ondrej.cer...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Regarding the legal question that arose in this thread, I have asked here: >> http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/308909/how-to-manage-copyright-notices-from-contributors-to-a-bsd-licensed-project > > Ondrej, I'm sorry, but it's a wrong question, do you understand? > > You can consider me as a contributor - in case, like with _submitted_ > patch above. And here you have a clear permission in the very beginning > of this conversation: please do, whatever you want. Is this still not clear?! > > But in general, my repo - is not a reservoir of public domain code for > inclusion eventually in sympy, that can be just cherry-pick'ed or > copy-pasted. Unless all this wasn't submitted to you by author - I'm not > your contributor and you have simple BSD-terms, if you really want to > use that, it's all. > > PS: >> I have asked here > > Please respect intelligence of you readers and don't misinform people with > ridiculous claims that I require from you changing Copyright notice just > for a few-line patch.
I misunderstood what you said above. I thought you said that we cannot use your patch without modifying our copyright. Thanks for clarifying that. Thanks for allowing us to use this specific patch. The question on stackoverflow stays though --- the question is, if you fork SymPy (there is over 1300 forks just on GitHub alone), and whether or not you rename the repository from sympy to something else, and you keep the license, how do we integrate it back, according to the license terms. The specific question is about the copyright notice, whether you can incorporate it as two different files (LICENSE and AUTHORS) or whether the text must be intact. It is actually not clear, because you keep the copyright to all patches, whether or not you acknowledge it, so the copyright notice is actually redundant. Specifically, your fork is not public domain. Your fork is (currently) released under the BSD licensed (so you already gave us permission to use your code by using this license), and git commits with your name are copyrighted to you, just like other git commits that you also include are copyrighted to their authors. Ondrej -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sympy@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/CADDwiVD%2BiKvUvVftvaKocAqGNnzfMSu_tQnCh5RxRY3afmzdJA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
