Open Stack

On 04/29/2013 02:08 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>> On Sun, 2013-04-28 at 11:04 -0400, Monty Taylor wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Totally feasible to do, if it's something that people want.
>>
>> I think - no matter how much we can clean it up - there's very little
>> value in requiring those shipping OpenStack to include an attribution
>> notice which credits every single copyright holder. Requiring an
>> attribution to the OpenStack project is probably annoying enough, but
>> attributing hundreds of copyright holders would be pretty ridiculous.
> 
> Yeah.... just because we can do NOTICE files doesn't mean we should. I
> take from Richard's advice that it's not necessary for us and provides
> no additional value, so I'd prefer to continue ignoring them like I
> always did. And use the time we'd collectively spend on automating the
> creation of them (no matter how small) onto something more useful :)

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