On 10/19/2011 02:12 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
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.
I personally rather dropping the [name of copyright owner] I believe that's why we have history in the source control. There is one person adding the file and other X (X likely > 1) people changing it, I see no reason crediting the one who added the file. We had a discussion on this in the engine-core project some time ago and we decided to remove all credits to file creators. If not accepted as a general rule for all oVirt projects I would like to suggest that this can be decided/changed on a project level. Livnat