Hi Taylor , 

There are some tasks pending in this regard , the goal is to remove all twitter 
copyright headers soon , some of the commits are in and some are remaining .

-Ali

> On May 1, 2018, at 5:37 PM, P. Taylor Goetz <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Heron PPMC,
> 
> I’ve mentioned this before, but IMO, this practice needs to stop.
> 
> The community default seems to be to apply the Apache license header with a 
> twitter copyright assertion on all files, even ones copied from other 
> ALv2-licensed projects.
> 
> Twitter can’t assert copyright on code their employees didn’t create, though, 
> at least in this project, they continue to do so. I find this practice 
> unacceptable.
> 
> Please reconsider even including “Copyright Twitter $date” at all in license 
> headers. That’s more suitable for the NOTICE file, and removed from the 
> source header.
> 
> Aside from having a twitter account, I have no affiliation with twitter. As a 
> mentor I was surprised and disappointed to see a Twitter copyright applied to 
> my own (implicitly copyrighted) work. That’s not cool, nor really (IANAL) 
> legal.
> 
> I would appreciate if this could be corrected. This kind of thing is 
> something podlings need to know how to address proactively.
> 
> -Taylor

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