[Xcb] What copyright notice to use in derived software?

[Carsten Meier]

Since you are the original author, I'll treat it as public domain. But
I'll give you some credits in the file header if you don't object. :)

Am Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:20:43 -0400
schrieb Eamon Walsh <ewalsh at tycho.nsa.gov>:

> Carsten Meier wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need some help with licensing-stuff:
> >
> > I plan to release v0.1 of my C++ language wrapper for XCB the next
> > few days (under the same license as XCB). It contains a heavily
> > modified version of libxcb's c_client.py (but no other parts from
> > it). What copyright notice should I include? The file c_client.py
> > itself has no copyright-message included. Is it OK to simply
> > include a COPYING file like the following?
> >
> > ---------
> > (C) Copyright 2008 <my name>
> > All rights reserved.
> >
> > The file src/cc_client.py included in this software has been derived
> > from the file src/c_client.py from libxcb (<copyright
> > notice from libxcb's COPYING>) distributed under the same terms and
> > conditions a this software (see below)
> >
> > <MIT-license goes here>
> > ---------
> >
> > Some hints would be nice.
> >   
> 
> I wrote c_client.py originally.  My work carries no copyright; you may
> treat it as public domain.
> 
> However, there have been other commits to the file since I committed
> it.  IANAL.
> 
> 
> > Best regards,
> > Carsten
> > _______________________________________________
> > Xcb mailing list
> > Xcb at lists.freedesktop.org
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xcb
> >   
> 
> 
Since you are the original author, I'll treat it as public domain. But
I'll give you some credits in the file header if you don't object. :)


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