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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 at markwash.net>
> To: openstack-tc at lists.openstack.org
> <openstack-tc at 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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