Re: [fw-general] Coding Standard Discussion Thread - Docblock Standardization

[Bill Karwin]

Colin Ross wrote:
I am by no means a lawyer, so i'm prolly wrong on this, but do you 
need to have a copyright/license note in each source file? Shouldn't a 
package-wide one be good enough? i.e. All source files in the Zend 
Framework are subject are subject to license XXX, or do we have a 
mishmash of licenses.
I am not a lawyer either, but my understanding is that because the BSD 
license permits any given files to be separated from the package and 
utilized separately, the copyright should appear in all files.  It 
should even appear in the unit tests, but currently not all of the unit 
tests have this docblock.


Although copyright/left is different depending on author and how s/he 
decides to attribute their own work.
One of the conditions of the CLA is that the author grants license to 
Zend to redistribute the code under potentially different license terms 
than those used by the author.  Zend uses a license based on the BSD 
license for the whole Zend Framework.  So the license/copyright docblock 
should have the same content throughout the ZF tree.

Regards,
Bill Karwin