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Re: libssh patch


Hi Andreas,

As told on IRC, I think that his patches are to small to be eligible to
the statute of copywritable work.
Rubben, this is of course not in the intention of minimizing your work.
What you did is cool but in my opinion not worth adding your name to
the copyright file.
I think our copyright policy against corporations is relevant anyway,
in case you'd do some other development for libssh for your company.

Do you agree that we commit your patch in these conditions ? your name
and email address would appear in the git logs.

Regards,

Aris

Andreas Schneider a écrit :
> On Tuesday 06 April 2010 20:26:05 you wrote:
>> Hi,
> 
> Hi Rubben,
>  
>>    A new feature patch.
>>
>>    This has two files because I forgot one file in the first patch, sorry
>> if it is a problem.
> 
> that's no problem. The commit message states:
> 
> 	Ruben Garcia Azuara, a Telefonica I+D SAU worker, deliver a patch to
> 	add OpenSSH parameters to libssh.
> 
> We have a copyright policy:
> 
> The developers of libssh have a policy of asking for contributions to be made 
> under the personal copyright of the contributor, instead of a corporate 
> copyright.
> 
> There are some reasons for the establishment of this policy:
> 
>     * Individual copyrights make copyright registration in the US a simpler 
> process.
>     * If libssh is copyrighted by individuals rather than corporations, 
> decisions regarding enforcement and protection of copyright will, more likely, 
> be made in the interests of the project, and not in the interests of any 
> corporation’s shareholders.
>     * If we ever need to relicense a portion of the code contacting 
> individuals for permission to do so is much easier than contacting a company
> 
> http://www.libssh.org/development/
> 
> So I have to ask if you contribute this personally, else we can't accept the 
> patch.
> 
> 
> 	-- andreas
> 
> 

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Re: libssh patchRuben Garcia Azuara <rubenga@xxxxxx>
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RE: libssh patchRUBEN GARCIA AZUARA <rubenga@xxxxxx>
Re: libssh patchAndreas Schneider <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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