Policy for applying copyright notices

[Carl Trieloff]

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.
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