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On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 09:56:17AM -0700, Mark Washenberger wrote:

> > Unless anyone has a stronger counterpoint to the view Richard has 
expressed
> > here, I'd like to proceed with plans to stop allowing commits that add 
new
> > copyright headers to new file additions in Glance (LICENSE file isan 
obvious
> > exception).
> 
> Just a clarification, I wasn't taking any position on the issue, but
> rather countering what appeared to be a strongly-held position that
> seemed to rest on some legal assumptions.
> 
> There could be other reasons to favor placement of copyright notices
> in each file.

I see that y'all have talked about this back and forth a bit - and I agree 
that
per-file copyright can contain some headaches. 

However, I have had some very *practical* experience in this area; I was 
at
one time directly involved in a major lawsuit surrounding open source, 
copyright
and licensing (see my email address & your first guess will probably be 
correct).
In several cases, the provenance of individual files was being 
investigated,
and per-file copyright statements were an important part of that.

IANAL, but I heartily suggest that this topic be brought up at the 
Foundation
level, before we put anything into effect at the Project level.

Mark Brown