Re: RFC: Template Copyright notices

On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 12:19, David Crawshaw wrote:
> I think we need to come up with a standard for these copyright notices.

Yeah, I was (believe it or not) trying to use the same standard for all.

> If we start listing the names of all contributors in each file, it's 
> going to become quite messy. Also, it's not really necessary. We can 
> track copyright through the usernames attached to CVS commit entries, 
> which is much easier to keep up-to-date (automagic).
> 
> So what if we just use:
> 
> <!--See COPYING for license details [LGPL] -->

Yeah, ok, and the authors and contributors can be listed in the AUTHORS
file.  That's fine.  Maybe extend it to be:

<!-- See COPYING for license details [LGPL]
     And AUTHORS for author information -->

Although I do think that, at some point, there has to be a line drawn
between 'heavy modification' and 'rewrite' wrt to authors/contributors. 
For instance, although the current Lithium focusable code is an
evolution of your old focusable code, it's completely different.  I
guess that can be described as a 'derivative' and all that can be
explained.

I dunno, IANAL so maybe I'm suggesting something slightly silly here.

- Charlie

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