Re: [dylan] Formatting of license and copyright info

What you said. 


--Scott 

On Dec 6, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Bruce Mitchener <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> Since I'm working on getting licensing status into good shape for a number of libraries (both existing ones and a number of new ones that I'm working on), I'm hoping that we can agree on a good way to do this so that we're consistent from project to project. Ideally, this will also have tool support in the future.
> 
> OpenDylan itself has 3 lines in the header of every Dylan file:
> 
>  * Copyright
>  * License: Pointer to License.txt.
>  * Warranty
> 
> In a number of things, I've just been putting a single line in each Dylan file:
> 
>  * Copyright: Pointer to the license file.
> 
> In a typical library, I'd like to just maintain the copyright and license in a single file rather than each. Honestly, I don't recall what the legal best practice is in this area (are per-file copyrights ever required?).
> 
> In the future, I want some licensing metadata in the LID file for use by tools, but I don't think we're there yet.
> 
> Anyone have opinions on this, strong or otherwise?
> 
>  - Bruce
> 
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