RTEMS-libbsd copyright question

[Gedare Bloom]

Hello Sichen Zhao,

Copyright applies to any new code that you personally author. The
conventional wisdom is that if you make 3 or more lines of new code in
a file, then you have expressed some original thoughts/ideas in the
code and a copyright existss so you can/should add your name. Changing
existing code does not necessarily give you a copyright on it, and
neither do mechanical changes i.e., code changes that do not express a
thought. This is a fairly large grey area.

Gedare


On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 2:57 AM, Sichen Zhao <zsc19940506 at outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a question about copyright in rtems-libbsd: i ported some usb driver files from FreeBSD, i modified somewhere in these files to suit with rtems-libbsd. Should i add my copyright in these file?
> Besides, I also modified some files in the rtemsbsd folder,. Should i add my copyright in these file?
>
> Best Regards
> Sichen Zhao
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