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Richard,

I would like to hear your reasoning here, as this strikes me as a bad 
idea.  By my reading, there are strict restrictions on removing anyone's 
copyright or attribution notices (cf Section 4.2 of the Apache license).

Thanks,

Van

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Van Lindberg
VP, Intellectual Property, Rackspace
van.lindberg at rackspace.com
M: 214.364.7985


On 5/17/13 10:47 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
> 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
>
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