Hey Definitely a good topic for legal-discuss, I think. To catch on the thread to date, the archives are here: http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-tc/2013-May/thread.html#215 Cheers, Mark. -------- Forwarded Message --------

From: Mark Washenberger <mark.washenberger@markwash.net> To: openstack-tc@lists.openstack.org <openstack-tc@lists.openstack.org> Subject: [openstack-tc] Copyrights and License Headers in source files Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:57:45 -0700

Hi folks,

I was looking into the ASL-2.0, and chanced across the fact that in Apache projects, they require that source files only have the License Header, and may not have any copyright notices [1]. It occurred to me that we waste a fair amount of time on copyrights in license headers, and it would be nice not to have to do that anymore.

I also noticed a previous conversation [2] on this subject. I have not found any policy that actually requires us to include copyrights with each source file license header.

Feel free to suggest that this is more trouble than it is worth, but I'd like to propose that we discourage new contributions from including copyright attribution, and provide a process to work with the various parties we have to remove the copyrights from existing files. Somewhere along the line, somebody (maybe even me!) could write some appropriate hooks to ensure the (now identical) license header is present in every file for every submission.

Also, feel free to suggest that I'm plain wrong and am still wet behind the ears--I won't be terribly surprised!

[1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers [2] http://markmail.org/message/eawha7pjiqoslm66?q=openstack+license +source+header

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