Re: Policy for applying copyright notices

On 10/18/2011 05:31 PM, Richard Fontana wrote: > On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:41:04PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> > On 10/18/2011 12:35 PM, Carl Trieloff wrote: >>> > > >>> > >I would like to add to the site some text around applying the copyright >>> > >statement per the license text as per http://www.ovirt.org/about/licensing/ >>> > > >>> > >In the piece at the top of the license, there is a section >>> > > >>> > >"Copyright [yyyy] [name of copyright owner]" >> > >> > This will remain a recommendation, right? It would be difficult for >> > us to get approval to use something other than the IBM corporate >> > standard copyright notice (which does change every couple years). >> > It seems (C) comes in and out of style over time :-) > That line is actually from the appendix of the Apache License 2.0, > which gives a recommended copyright notice. > > I'm sympathetic to the view that precise formal details of copyright > notices should not be mandated. At Red Hat, I think the "(C)" may have > been historically recommended, but I have non-actively promoted > non-use of it on principles of minimalism :-). > > I think, however, that Carl was suggesting a rule that *some* suitable > form of copyright notice be placed by the author of an original file, > not mandating what the form would be. correct. Carl.