Policy for applying copyright notices

[Jan Wildeboer]

Not everybody will get sources from git. When distributed as tarball this 
info is lost.

It is thus always good to be able to reconstruct from the file contents 
itself.

Jan
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----- Original Message -----
From: board-bounces at ovirt.org <board-bounces at ovirt.org>
To: cctrieloff at redhat.com <cctrieloff at redhat.com>
Cc: board at ovirt.org <board at 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



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