Yeah, that's for lawyers.  :-)

On 1/18/2019 9:30 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
>
> Well if you set the Inception-Year in the pom, 
> maven generates this line in the generated artifacts.
> I have never seen the year appear in every file header.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Am 18.01.19, 15:28 schrieb "Kevin A. McGrail" <[email protected]>:
>
>     On 1/18/2019 9:17 AM, Christofer Dutz wrote:
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > as I was setting up things so Jenkins will build the project, I noticed 
> that you have some strange plugin in the build that enforces headers quite 
> strictly.
>     > I don’t have any objections to that, however it marked my usual ASF 
> headers as invalid because they didn’t have the first line in them.
>     >
>     > Currently your header looks like this:
>     >
>     > Copyright © 2019 Apache IoTDB(incubating) ([email protected])
>     >
>     > Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
>     > or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
>     > distributed with this work for additional information
>     > regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
>     > to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
>     > "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
>     > with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
>     >
>     >     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
>     >
>     > Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
>     > distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
>     > WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
>     > See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
>     > limitations under the License.
>     >
>     > I would strongly suggest to remove the first line. It’s equivalent can 
> be automatically generated by a maven plugin and the way it is, I think it 
> would require changing each file in the repo every year. I doubt this is what 
> you want to do.
>     >
>     > What do you others think? (Especially the other mentors)
>     >
>     > Chris
>     
>     I would defer to VP Legal to see what they say. 
>     
>     At my firm, we always use 4 elements:
>         The Copyright Symbol
>         The Year of the Creation
>         The Name of the Author
>         A Rights Statement
>     
>     For example, Copyright © 1997-2019 Peregrine Computer Consultants
>     Corporation.
>     All Rights Reserved.
>     
>     Regards,
>     
>     KAM
>     
>     -- 
>     Kevin A. McGrail
>     VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation
>     Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project
>     https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171
>     
>     
>

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