Second point is identifying the source of every commit. IMHO it is good practice to have a sign-off for ALL initial commits. Justt to make sure we have a full trail. Important for example for EAL certification. But also in case of disputes. 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: cctrieloff@redhat.com <cctrieloff@redhat.com> Cc: board@ovirt.org <board@ovirt.org> Sent: Sat Oct 22 13:18:28 2011 Subject: Re: Policy for applying copyright notices 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 _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@ovirt.org http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/board