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
