Policy for applying copyright notices

[Anthony Liguori]

On 10/23/2011 08:37 AM, Carl Trieloff wrote:
> 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.

Are we talking about dropping the copyright line or an authors line?  For instance:

* Copyright International Business Machines, 2011
*  Authors:
*   Anthony Liguori <aliguori at us.ibm.com>

Having a person's name in the file is useful in terms of asking questions.  Yes, 
git exists but not everything deals with git trees.

If we're talking about stripping the Copyright line, that's not going to be 
allowed some corporate legal departments.  People copy files between projects so 
preserving the copyright notice is pretty important.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Carl.
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