Policy for applying copyright notices

[Carl Trieloff]

On 10/25/2011 03:17 PM, Livnat Peer wrote:
> I started the discussion about credits to file's author and it took a
> little turn, assuming no legal issue, my original request was -
>
> I rather not have the author name on the file.
> The main reason for that is that file changes over time and after a
> while it has little to do with the original version. There are many
> contributors to the changes and by having one name on the file we "hide"
> the contribution of other developers.
>
> I don't think the above contradicts the open source spirit, on the contrary.
>
> The option i saw on this thread about adding all the names of those who
> changed the file over time seems cumbersome to me and i think that's why
> we have git history for.
>
> This was discussed in the engine-core project some time ago and we
> decided to remove all author credits from the file.
>
> - 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.


As I said, there is no need for the authors line.

Carl.