Re: [PATCH v3 36/37] nptl: Move setxid broadcast implementation into libc

[Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>]

On 06/04/2021 16:23, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adhemerval Zanella:
> 
>> On 06/04/2021 15:41, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> * Adhemerval Zanella:
>>>
>>>>> +/* Copyright (C) 2002-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>>>>> +   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
>>>>> +   Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, 2002.
>>>>
>>>> Remove the 'Contributed by' Line.
>>>
>>> I prefer not to.  It's a copy of an existing file.  And in Germany,
>>> authors have an inalienable right to be named.
>>
>> I am far from Copyright expert here, but my understanding is since
>> we do not add such 'Contributed by' anymore and Copyright assignment
>> is what matter, it should be fine to remove even this is a copy.
> 
> No, authorship and copyright ownership are different legal concepts.
> You can sign away your copyright (or the equivalent, exploitation
> rights), but you cannot sign away your authorship rights (or moral
> rights, as they are sometimes called).
> 
> If someone else wants to do a bulk removal of “Contributed by”s, I won't
> object to it (beyond what I have written above).  But I won't do it
> myself.

Fair enough.