Open Stack

On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Mark Washenberger <
mark.washenberger at markwash.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I was looking into the ASL-2.0, and chanced across the fact that in Apache
> projects, they require that source files only have the License Header, and
> may not have any copyright notices [1]. It occurred to me that we waste a
> fair amount of time on copyrights in license headers, and it would be nice
> not to have to do that anymore.
>

I think that only applies to code submitted directly to ASF, but regardless
you wouldn't get any objections from me regarding your proposal.  Some of
the legal teams in companies involved in OpenStack however may feel
differently.

I'm actually more troubled by seeing folks put copyright headers on
blueprints.


>
> I also noticed a previous conversation [2] on this subject. I have not
> found any policy that actually requires us to include copyrights with each
> source file license header.
>
> Feel free to suggest that this is more trouble than it is worth, but I'd
> like to propose that we discourage new contributions from including
> copyright attribution, and provide a process to work with the various
> parties we have to remove the copyrights from existing files. Somewhere
> along the line, somebody (maybe even me!) could write some appropriate
> hooks to ensure the (now identical) license header is present in every file
> for every submission.
>
> Also, feel free to suggest that I'm plain wrong and am still wet behind
> the ears--I won't be terribly surprised!
>
> [1] http://www.apache.org/legal/src-headers.html#headers
> [2]
> http://markmail.org/message/eawha7pjiqoslm66?q=openstack+license+source+header
>
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