[legal-discuss] Fwd: [openstack-tc] Copyrights and License Headers in source files

Jeremy Stanley fungi at yuggoth.org
Thu May 2 23:25:22 UTC 2013


On 2013-05-02 14:10:04 -0700 (-0700), Mark Washenberger wrote:
[...]
> I'd never considered it either, until I found out that Apache
> Software Foundation projects are explicitly required to *not* put
> copyright headers in their source files (they do, however, retain
> license headers). I realize that rule doesn't apply to us, but if
> it's good enough for ASF, how are we different?
[...]

I gather the important distinction here (why their policy differs
from ours) is that the ASF requires assignment of copyright from
committers to the Foundation while OSF does not.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley



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