xfwm4 patch - window workspace movement

rootsuid rootsuid at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 16:40:14 CET 2009


Ah, ok... I had seen the copyright inclusion I mentioned on some
earlier post. Thanks for the update though =]
--root

On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Biju Chacko <botsie at xfce.org> wrote:
> rootsuid wrote:
>>
>> This is my first patch submission to xfce, and I'm not really sure on
>> the process (yes, even after some searching). So feel free to point me
>> in a better direction.
>> I did read about explicit copyrights, so: Copyright (C) 2009 The Xfce
>> development team.
>
> Unfortunately, there is no legal entity called "The Xfce Development Team"
> that you can use in this way.
>
> In the past we've not been very particular about the way we've handled
> copyrights. Effectively, the Xfce copyright is owned by everybody who has
> ever contributed to it. I don't think there'd be any objection if you just
> submitted a patch that added your name to the Credits list -- which would
> implicitly add you as a copyright owner.
>
> An explicit copyright assignment would be needed if you did not want to
> retain your rights. If you wanted to do that you could assign them to
> Olivier -- who is the maintainer of xfwm4.
>
> -- b
>
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