<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Yes, you can both announce copyright via a method, such as a file in a directory, or at the top of each individual file.<div><br></div><div>For reference, here is a great presentation from Rowan Wilson at Oxford - <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/crmwilson/copyright-in-software-and-open-source-licensing">http://www.slideshare.net/crmwilson/copyright-in-software-and-open-source-licensing</a></div><div><br></div><div>Again, I’m not a lawyer. I’ve just a guy who loves getting people to contribute code, and who has to manage that balance of code contribution combined with protection of intellectual property rights at work. <br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Steve Gordon <<a href="mailto:sgordon@redhat.com">sgordon@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">----- Original Message -----<br><blockquote type="cite">From: "Nicholas Chase" <<a href="mailto:nchase@mirantis.com">nchase@mirantis.com</a>><br>To: <a href="mailto:openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org">openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org</a><br>Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:13:50 PM<br>Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] Copyright statements in docs source files<br><br><br><br>On 1/14/2014 12:54 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">All of which is good gear...but, current guidance [1][2] is as follows:<br><br>"If you update a page, you can add the entity you represent (self or<br>organization) to the list of Copyright holders, but do not remove any<br>listed Copyright headings. If the content has been substantially updated in<br>2013, add the year to the change. If no substantive updates or revisions<br>have been made to the copyrighted material, the year does not need to be<br>updated."<br></blockquote><br>Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly, but my interpretation is that<br>there's one big copyright page where this information should go, versus<br>on individual pages, which is what I think the original question is about.<br></blockquote><br>I believe it refers to the page being edited, if you can find a central page listing all the copyright attributions currently present in OpenStack I'll be impressed (there's 200+ variations in Nova alone). What I believe Rich was referring to is this type of attribution which is (very) prevalent in the OpenStack code base - including in the developer documentation within those repos:<br><br> <a href="http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ceilometer/tree/doc/source/install/dbreco.rst">http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ceilometer/tree/doc/source/install/dbreco.rst</a><br><br>-Steve<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Openstack-docs mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org">Openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs">http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs</a></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>