[Arm-netbook] Allwinner git / GPL stalemate situation

lkcl luke luke.leighton at gmail.com
Wed Jul 4 13:52:25 BST 2012


On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Alexey Eromenko <al4321 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Tom Cubie <mr.hipboi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> today my superior ask me to remove all the "allwinner" word in all the
>> source code of our internal tree for some reasons. i want to know if
>> can i still leave the GPL statement in the source code with some
>> random company name.
>>
>
> No, no, no.
>
> Random company name cannot be used. You can either use your company
> name "Allwinner Tech.",

 they're changing the name of the company, alexey.

> or names of individual developers "Tom Cubie"
> or of your lead developer "Fabrice Bellard" (as in case of Qemu).

 that of course means that those individuals now own the copyright on
the code, *not* the company.

 l.



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