On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:56:17AM -0700, Mark Washenberger wrote:
Unless anyone has a stronger counterpoint to the view Richard has expressed here, I'd like to proceed with plans to stop allowing commits that add new copyright headers to new file additions in Glance (LICENSE file isan obvious exception).
Just a clarification, I wasn't taking any position on the issue, but rather countering what appeared to be a strongly-held position that seemed to rest on some legal assumptions.
There could be other reasons to favor placement of copyright notices in each file.
I see that y'all have talked about this back and forth a bit - and I agree that per-file copyright can contain some headaches. However, I have had some very *practical* experience in this area; I was at one time directly involved in a major lawsuit surrounding open source, copyright and licensing (see my email address & your first guess will probably be correct). In several cases, the provenance of individual files was being investigated, and per-file copyright statements were an important part of that. IANAL, but I heartily suggest that this topic be brought up at the Foundation level, before we put anything into effect at the Project level. Mark Brown