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

[Florian Weimer]

* 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.

Thanks,
Florian