Policy for applying copyright notices

[Chris Wright]

* Doron Fediuck (dfediuck at redhat.com) wrote:
> On Sunday 23 October 2011 20:01:33 Livnat Peer wrote:
> > On 10/23/2011 07:31 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I was referring to the author.
> > One person is adding the file and many others are changing it. Many
> > times (after a while) the file has little to do with the original file
> > that was added.
> > 
> > So for questions about the file you usually need to deal with the info
> > from the source control.
>
> WRT to omitting the person name (from past experience...),
> After a year or so people change positions / work places, and this
> becomes simply an old memory, with the relevant person not longer
> available to answer questions, so this is missing the point.

Not only do different employers have different Copyright requirements
as Anthony noted, but developers have different attitudes about the
attribution they prefer in their source files.  So, even if eventually
stale, it's a basic courtesy to allow author to do as they see fit ;)

thanks,
-chris