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On 17/05/13 15:29 +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 08:57:32AM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> On 05/17/2013 08:16 AM, Sean Dague wrote:
>> +1 on the need for consistency.
>>
>> In order of my personal preference:
>>
>> 1) completely accurate and up-to-date copyright headers
>> 2) no copyright headers (just the license)
>> 3) what we have now (incomplete, inaccurate, out of date)
>>
>> I'm fine with 1 or 2 ... but big +1 on not 3.
>>
>> If we're going to #2, I definitely think we just need to remove all of
>> it.  If we can't do that, we should just aim for #1 by doing a better
>> job of documenting and educating on the expectations here, and having
>> reviewers do a better job of checking for it.
>To me the important thing is that every file holds a header that
>clearly identifies the license, and that the source file is part
>of the openstack codebase (so its origins are clear if copied to
>another project's codebase). Perhaps you could also add a generic
>line "Copyright held by various OpenStack Community Developers"
>but it wouldn't really do much from a legal POV. Ultimately the
>GIT history is the only thing that can give you authoratative
>information about a file's authorship & thus copyright.
>
>So I'd vote in favour of option #2 with a generic header applied
>to all files.
>

I agree.

+1 for #2 with a generic header applied.

FF

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