Even worse, stripping (c) notes is illegal in many jurisdictions. Years ago it was eactly what someone did to one of my projects (osCommerce) and I succesfully sued them in a german court. It was one of the first cases of GPL in court, BTW and the offender had to restore all original copyrigt notices. #justsayin Jan -- Jan H Wildeboer | EMEA Open Source Affairs | Office: +49 (0)89 205071-207 Red Hat GmbH | Mobile: +49 (0)174 33 23 249 Technopark II, Haus C | Fax: +49 (0)89 205071-111 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 | 85630 Grasbrunn | _____________________________________________________________________ Reg. Adresse: Red Hat GmbH, Technopark II, Haus C, Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 11 -15 85630 Grasbrunn, Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Muenchen HRB 153243 Geschaeftsfuehrer: Brendan Lane, Charlie Peters, Michael Cunningham, Charles Cachera _____________________________________________________________________ GPG Key: 3AC3C8AB Fingerprint: 3D1E C4E0 DD67 E16D E47A 9564 A72F 5C39 3AC3 C8AB ----- Original Message ----- From: board-bounces@ovirt.org <board-bounces@ovirt.org> To: Livnat Peer <lpeer@redhat.com> Cc: board@ovirt.org <board@ovirt.org> Sent: Sun Oct 23 09:37:48 2011 Subject: Re: Policy for applying copyright notices On 10/22/2011 01:18 PM, Livnat Peer wrote:

I personally rather dropping the [name of copyright owner] I believe that's why we have history in the source control.

That is also fine. Note that if a file is brought to the project it is considered bad form to strip the copyright notice, so over time we will get a collection of files with notices and without over time if code is re-used from other OSS projects. Carl. _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board