+1, as I really don't like updating all the files because we're in a new year. The copyright header shouldn't require changing every year.
On 9/12/07, Vincent Massol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Maintaining copyright statements in source file headers is a pain. > The ASF has solved this recently by removing copyright information > from headers. Their header is now: > > /* > * 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. > */ > > The important line is "See the NOTICE file distributed with this work > for additional information regarding copyright ownership". > > I propose that we do the same and have this new boilerplate: > > /* > * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional > information > * regarding copyright ownership. > * > * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > * under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as > * published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of > * the License, or (at your option) any later version. > * > * This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU > * Lesser General Public License for more details. > * > * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public > * License along with this software; if not, write to the Free > * Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA > * 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org. > */ > > And in the NOTICE file we would have: > > " > This product includes software developed by XpertNet SARL and > individual contributors under the following copyright: > Copyright 2004-2007, XpertNet SARL, and individual contributors. > " > > WDYT? > > I'm not a lawyer so I have no idea if this is valid or not but it > looks sensible to me. > > -Vincent > Sergiu -- http://purl.org/net/sergiu _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
