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Yes, you can both announce copyright via a method, such as a file in a directory, or at the top of each individual file.

For reference, here is a great presentation from Rowan Wilson at Oxford - http://www.slideshare.net/crmwilson/copyright-in-software-and-open-source-licensing

Again, I’m not a lawyer. I’ve just a guy who loves getting people to contribute code, and who has to manage that balance of code contribution combined with protection of intellectual property rights at work. 
Regards,

Colin

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On Jan 14, 2014, at 11:23 AM, Steve Gordon <sgordon at redhat.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Nicholas Chase" <nchase at mirantis.com>
>> To: openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 1:13:50 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Openstack-docs] Copyright statements in docs source files
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/14/2014 12:54 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:
>> 
>>> All of which is good gear...but, current guidance [1][2] is as follows:
>>> 
>>> "If you update a page, you can add the entity you represent (self or
>>> organization) to the list of Copyright holders, but do not remove any
>>> listed Copyright headings. If the content has been substantially updated in
>>> 2013, add the year to the change. If no substantive updates or revisions
>>> have been made to the copyrighted material, the year does not need to be
>>> updated."
>> 
>> Maybe I'm reading this incorrectly, but my interpretation is that
>> there's one big copyright page where this information should go, versus
>> on individual pages, which is what I think the original question is about.
> 
> I believe it refers to the page being edited, if you can find a central page listing all the copyright attributions currently present in OpenStack I'll be impressed (there's 200+ variations in Nova alone). What I believe Rich was referring to is this type of attribution which is (very) prevalent in the OpenStack code base - including in the developer documentation within those repos:
> 
>    http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/ceilometer/tree/doc/source/install/dbreco.rst
> 
> -Steve
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