Copyright notice referring a company other than Sun

[Anthony Petrov]

Mark, Phil, thanks for the answers! So I'll just add another line 
mentioning Sun as the copyright holder next to the Red Hat's line.

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best regards,
Anthony

On 6/18/2009 9:17 PM Phil Race wrote:
> Quoting the SCA :
> 
> "you agree that we may register a copyright in your contribution and 
> exercise all ownership rights associated with it;"
> 
> So whilst I'm not a lawyer, I'd say that means that all code contributed
> to OpenJDK under SCA can have a full Sun copyright - and probably should
> have that explicitly in the source file. Not just for the new portions,
> but for all of it.
> 
> -phil.
> 
> Mark Wielaard wrote:
>> Hi Anthony,
>>
>> On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 20:01 +0400, Anthony Petrov wrote:
>>> The test needs to be slightly modified by Sun's engineers. Should the 
>>> copyright notice be modified as well? Like adding "Portions 
>>> copyrighted by Sun ... "? Or is it OK to leave it as is?
>>>
>>> If it should be modified, could someone please provide the exact 
>>> phrase that needs to be inserted in the legal statement in the 
>>> beginning of the source file? Thanks!
>>
>> It is OK to leave it as is and just add a new Copyright line for
>> your/Sun's contributions with your normal standard phrasing. Just add it
>> above or below the other line. You can never remove copyright statements
>> from other contributors, everybody keeps their own copyright, but you
>> can always add your own. There are lots of files already that have
>> multiple copyright statements from different people/companies in the
>> repository already.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>