Bug 13202

Summary:	Scripts copyright concerns
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Armin Kuster <akuster>
Component:	core	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Undecided	CC:	meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	2.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
URL:	https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/commit/scripts/oe-setup-builddir?id=fe73ea8c510877fe4e3c117985e8f3d0b79ddf1b
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Armin Kuster 2019-02-25 21:48:30 UTC

With commit fe73ea8c510877fe4e3c117985e8f3d0b79ddf1b, I noticed many Copyrights got replaced with Linux Foundation for years they had nothing to do with OE.
I had no idea one could do that with Copyrights, replace the owners like that.

I feel like a correction should be made to those files

Comment 1 Richard Purdie 2019-02-28 14:00:57 UTC

You can transfer Copyright ownership if you are owner. That commit covers some very specific changes when the Yocto Project was created and some existing copyright was transferred into the project (Linux Foundation) ownership (Intel owned OpenedHand copyright so had the legal right to transfer).