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<br><div><div>On Jan 14, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Rich Bowen <<a href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I'm looking at the source of the Ceilometer docs, and several of the files have copyright statements in the, attributing them to, eg, Rackspace or DreamHost. What's the policy on this? Surely these are now copyright OpenStack Foundation? Particularly as they accrue commits from a variety of different people. Is it actually desirable to anyone to keep these copyright statements in these files?<br><br>--Rich<br><br>-- <br>Rich Bowen - <a href="mailto:rbowen@redhat.com">rbowen@redhat.com</a><br>OpenStack Community Liaison<br><a href="http://openstack.redhat.com/">http://openstack.redhat.com/</a><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Openstack-docs mailing list<br>Openstack-docs@lists.openstack.org<br>http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-docs<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>