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On 05/01/2013 06:12 PM, Monty Taylor wrote:
> On 05/01/2013 06:05 PM, John Griffith wrote:
>> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Mark Washenberger
>> <mark.washenberger at markwash.net <mailto: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 would like to hear more about the time waste there - where are we
> spending time? Can we do something to make that better?
>
>> 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.
>
> And some of the developers. I would not like that.
>
> I would really like to see more folks learn about appropriate addition
> of copyright attribution when they work on a file, because I think it's
> quite important. Don't think that removing attribution from each file
> would prevent people from needing to do it - if we moved to a NOTICE
> file system, they'd need to put the notice there.

+1

This is really an education issue. Lots of first time Open Source folks 
on the project that don't understand that copyright + license grant in 
each file is actually quite important to ensure things are actually Open 
Source in all jurisdictions.

It would be good if there was a single wiki page that I could respond to 
people that -1 adding Copyright statements to explain that it is normal. 
I've had to explain that too many times.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague
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