[openstack-qa] Wanting clarification of copyright headers on new files

Christopher Yeoh cyeoh at au1.ibm.com
Sun Feb 3 23:11:14 UTC 2013


Hi Anne,

On Sun, 3 Feb 2013 10:47:50 -0600
Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org> wrote:
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18883/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18889/
> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/18890/
> 
> Once I have a "ruling" I'd like to have a definitive wiki page with
> guidance as well.

Yes that would be very handy. There are still pages around which talk
about assigning copyright to OpenStack LLC which is probably adding to
the confusion.

http://docs.openstack.org/developer/swift/development_guidelines.html
 
> Thanks for asking about it, and I would love the help with patches for
> consistency across all projects once we have better guidance.

I'd be happy to help if I'm permitted - if you haven't already done so
it might be worth asking the lawyer who is permitted to make changes to
the copyright lines - eg does it have to be someone who represents
OpenStack LLC?

In the meantime in order to minimise future fix up work I think it
is reasonable to -1 any changeset with new files with copyright 2012
(unless it really was written in 2012) or new files assigning
copyright to OpenStack LLC? I guess someone will yell if its not :-)

Regards,

Chris
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