Richard Fontana wrote:
So when I said that I had a couple of reasons to justify what Thierry wished to do, I had misunderstood what was desired (not having read the thread on openstack-dev), but now that I think I understand it correctly, one of that couple of reasons is still relevant, namely that the OpenStack CLA gives the OpenStack Foundation the power to remove contributors' copyright notices, assuming the contributor has signed the OpenStack CLA.
To clarify, the question is: can we remove the copyright lines from the file headers and move them to a NOTICE file without the formal approval of the entity mentioned in the copyright line (i.e. as long as they don't object by $DATE, we consider that they consent). So it's not exactly removing the notices, and we would not do it if the affected entity formally objected to it. The reason I'm asking is that it seems to be the only practical way to operate, since some entities already declared that they agree with it only if *all* copyright notices are moved. -- Thierry Carrez (ttx)