Re: [dylan] Formatting of license and copyright info

Sounds good.  For what it's worth, I know one large company that recently
changed its policy to not require copyright headers in each file.

-Carl

On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Scott McKay <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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