[openstack-qa] Removal of copyright notices

James E. Blair jeblair at openstack.org
Tue May 21 14:31:53 UTC 2013


Giulio Fidente <gfidente at redhat.com> writes:

> On 05/21/2013 04:13 PM, Martina Kollarova wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> there has been a discussion about removing copyright notices on the
>> openstack-dev mailing list. I've run sed on all of Tempest and here is
>> the result:
>>      https://review.openstack.org/#/c/29928/
>>
>> Question is, do we want this? Is it OK to just remove some company's
>> copyright notice?
>
> indeed there has been some discussion around the topic also in this list
>
> IMHO, I'd upvote that
>
> it is a clear message for new contributors and won't leave space for
> errors in the future; also read, it definitely solves the confusion on
> the topic

I believe it is premature to act on that discussion.  What courses of
action are legally appropriate and what the project as a whole will do
are not yet decided.

-Jim



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