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So, on one hand we have a perceived reticence to contribute to copyrighted works (which I believe is a valid point)

On the other hand, we have the reality that clearly stating copyright on a file helps to protect the contributors in the community (by clearly demonstrating who holds copyright)

This may be a good opportunity for an article on OpenStack.org as well a session at the design summit.
Regards,

Colin

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On Jan 14, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Rich Bowen <rbowen at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> On 01/14/2014 01:23 PM, Steve Gordon wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> 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
>> 
>> 
> 
> That was in fact the actual file I was editing as I sent that email.
> 
> I've actually had people ask me, when looking at files like this, if they have to ask the author for permission to submit patches against that file. If we can avoid making people even think that thought, we've done a good thing for the community.
> 
> See also http://producingoss.com/en/managing-volunteers.html#territoriality for another take on this issue, just in case Karl's voice carries more weight than mine.
> 
> -- 
> Rich Bowen - rbowen at redhat.com
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> http://openstack.redhat.com/
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