[openstack-tc] Copyrights and License Headers in source files

Russell Bryant rbryant at redhat.com
Wed May 1 23:05:21 UTC 2013


On 05/01/2013 06:57 PM, John Griffith wrote:
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> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Russell Bryant <rbryant at redhat.com
> <mailto:rbryant at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     On 05/01/2013 06:12 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 05/01/2013 06:05 PM, John Griffith wrote:
>     >> I'm actually more troubled by seeing folks put copyright headers on
>     >> blueprints.
>     >
>     > Fascinating. I wonder if they realize that they're just asserting
>     > copyright on the text of the blueprint itself...
> 
>     It's quite irritating.  It's not clear at all what the intention is.
>     Here are some examples:
> 
>     https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/accurate-capacity-of-clusters-for-scheduler
> 
>     https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/deploy-vcenter-templates-from-vmware-nova-driver
> 
>     https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/esx-resource-pools-as-compute-nodes
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>     https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/multiple-clusters-managed-by-one-service
> 
>     I emailed the submitted and asked for clarification on the intent, but
>     haven't heard anything back.
> 
> 
> You're much kinder than I Russell, I've just not accepted them and used
> equivalents that were written by others without the copyright.

Well, I haven't accepted these and this is one reason why.  I haven't
closed them out, either ... yet.

-- 
Russell Bryant



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