On Tue, 14 May 2019 20:10:32 +0200 Patrick Georgi via coreboot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody, Hi, > # How to handle copyright notices > The coreboot project has had issues with copyright notices for a long > time, and we’d like to start to address it. We currently don’t have > any guide on when it’s ok to add a copyright, and when it isn’t. [...] > Please rank these choices: > * Create an authors file and remove all existing copyright lines > * Create an authors file but leave existing copyright lines > * Don’t create an authors file or change existing copyright lines As I'm not an expert on the strategic and legal consequences of such changes, I've asked around and I was pointed to some references on the topic: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html#fnref2 There is also an example on how the GNU project does that: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Recording-Contributors https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#License-Notices Denis.
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