On 2019-10-17 12:10:17 -0400 (-0400), Chris Morgan wrote:
I notice that although the code is released under the Apache license, looking at a conceivable real at-scale deployment one would need to read docs still marked as belonging to AT&T, for example
https://opendev.org/airship/treasuremap links to https://airship-treasuremap.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
which is marked "© Copyright 2018 AT&T Intellectual Property. Revision 93aed048."
I do not know if this is a problem, per se, but does not seem entirely openstack-like to me. [...]
Thanks for pointing this out! It looks like that's coming from here: <URL: https://opendev.org/airship/treasuremap/src/commit/93aed048ea0e0247936999436... > In OpenStack we've also not been great about consistency when it comes to the copyright directive in our Sphinx configs. A lot of those indicate "OpenStack Foundation" as the copyright holder, which isn't right either: <URL: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/LegalIssuesFAQ#OpenStack_Foundation_Copyrigh... > But more to the point, trying to express specific copyright in that field is not a good idea anyway, since various files within the documentation source are likely to have copyright from a variety of entities. What's usually worked best is a vague expression like "Airship Contributors" similar to that of oslo.messaging (I picked this example at random because I know the Oslo team tends to pay closer attention to these sorts of details): <URL: https://opendev.org/openstack/oslo.messaging/src/commit/c01b03e87c66e964100d... > It also doesn't help that the copyright holder's legal entity name is actually "AT&T Intellectual Property" rather than just "AT&T" or something, which makes it sound all the more possessive, but that's a corporate legal thing on their end for which we're unlikely to convince them otherwise. -- Jeremy Stanley