Matt Armstrong <marmstrong@google.com> writes: > > Thanks for thinking about this David. > > The good news: in looking into this further, the issue of leaving (c) > claims in code is secondary. The primary thing I'm supposed to do is > send patches with my work email. > > If I become a significant author in some file, adding a (c) Google makes > sense if that the normal thing to do in notmuch. I'll keep that in > mind. Yeah, for example most people creating a new file will put their name in the copyright header. Or maybe rewriting a significant amount. But it's an individual judgement call. > > Google's open source lawyers tell me that regardless of what (c) marks > appear in code, the author of code (e.g. significant patches) retains > copyright unless other arrangements are made, such as those you see in > FSF projects (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.en.html). Never argue with a happy lawyer, that's motto :). It sounds like we're good to go; I merged patch 2/2 after moving the NEWS. Then I wanted to shorten the summary line of the commit, which got a bit more intrusive than I wanted, hopefully it conveys the intent of the existing message. d