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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:01:51PM +0200, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Thierry Carrez wrote:
> > I think this is no longer a legal question (we established that they are
> > not necessary), but a project consistency/cleanup effort discussion...
> > so we should move it to openstack-dev, and discuss the three options on
> > the table with all the devs.
> 
> Actually I think there is one more legal question around this topic...
> 
> Are we allowed to unilaterally remove those copyright mentions from the
> header, or do we absolutely need to seek permission from the original
> holder ?
>
> On the -dev list discussion Sean suggested a "flag day" after which if
> you didn't object the new format (without copyright mentions) would be
> policy... I wonder if we could actually remove those mentions at that
> point without formal approval.

There are a couple of reasons why I think you can handle it this way,
if you want to. I can go into detail if anyone's interested
(especially if anyone disagrees with me).

- RF