open source – What are the legal considerations when forking a BSD-licensed project? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Posted by jpluimers on 2023/08/31
Someone pointed me to the answer of [Wayback/Archive] open source – What are the legal considerations when forking a BSD-licensed project? – Software Engineering Stack Exchange by [Wayback/Archive] Earlz (question by [Wayback/Archive] Thomas Owens):
The common thing I see to handle this is basically using some kind of version control and when a file is changed by a large amount, adding a copyright header.For instance, in OpenBSD I believe they follow a convention like this:--top of file-- [copyright header of recent "major" editor] [copyright header of previous major editor] [copyright header of creator](where copyright header is BSD license or whatever)This handles the copyright issue for the most part. Basically anytime a major edit is done on a file, a copyright header will be added. Major is subjective, but usually involves more than trivial refactoring or porting.
Which meant that some copyrights had to be updated at [Wayback/Archive] Update copyrights · Issue #37 · jpluimers/fritzcap · GitHub
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