On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:58 PM, Jason Grout <[email protected]> wrote:
> For a specific project, say JupyterLab, should we "JupyterLab contributors",
> to indicate that those individuals who contributed to that specific project
> are the ones that hold copyright? Or should we give the generic "Project
> Jupyter Contributors"

Because people tend to move fluidly between different
repos/subprojects, I would prefer the generic "Project Jupyter
Contributors". Also this more easily covers situations where we
re-organize code between repos/subprojects, as tends to happen
sometimes...

Cheers,

Brian

>
> Also, FYI, the Wikipedia text has the place for 'copyright holders' as a
> templated term, perhaps that's where we got the other text:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses#3-clause_license_.28.22Revised_BSD_License.22.2C_.22New_BSD_License.22.2C_or_.22Modified_BSD_License.22.29
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 7:50 AM Damián Avila <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> +1 to use the real BSD.
>>
>> >But if using the plural "Contributors" text is clearer than the
>> > collective "Team", that's fine, too, and changes no meaning.
>>
>> +1 too.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2016-07-25 8:40 GMT-03:00 MinRK <[email protected]>:
>>>
>>> +1 to the change. Not quite sure how we drifted there, but it may well
>>> have been my doing during the split. We have defined in our IPython license
>>> file "The IPython Development Team is the set of all contributors to the
>>> IPython project," so it is already synonymous with Contributors, and has
>>> never been an entity. But if using the plural "Contributors" text is clearer
>>> than the collective "Team", that's fine, too, and changes no meaning.
>>>
>>> -MinRK
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Fernando Perez <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I recently noticed that there's something funny about the way our
>>>> license is worded compared to the BSD template...
>>>>
>>>> Our licenses say
>>>>
>>>> "Neither the name of JupyterLab...", "... name of Jupyter...", etc...
>>>>
>>>> But the original BSD template reads
>>>> (https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause)
>>>>
>>>> "Neither the name of the copyright holder..."
>>>>
>>>> and the term "copyright holder" isn't a variable to template over, just
>>>> the words "copyright holder".  In our case, that is "Project Jupyter" in
>>>> some licenses, and I'd argue it should read "Project Jupyter Team" to
>>>> indicate that it's the *people*, not the abstract/legal project entity...
>>>>
>>>> I didn't realize that our licenses had changed in this way, but in a
>>>> sense we are NOT using BSD!  We've made a subtle but important change, as
>>>> we've basically added a trademark barrier in the third clause (hence this
>>>> question the person is asking), whereas the original third clause is about
>>>> *endorsement of promotion*.
>>>>
>>>> I had never noticed this, but I would argue that our licenses should:
>>>>
>>>> 1. All read:
>>>>
>>>> Copyright... The Project Jupyter Development Team.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This would convey the fact that we're talking about the people who wrote
>>>> the code.  It's our shorthand for the union of all `git shortlog -sne`...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2. Actually use the real BSD license text, not some subtly modified
>>>> version.  That means that other than filling in the placeholders, we leave
>>>> the body of text unmodified.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> What do people think?
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>> ps - sorry that I'm sending this and going offline, the discussion
>>>> started on the council list and Jason correctly pointed out that this is
>>>> really an open topic... Reposting here for reference, hopefully others can
>>>> provide feedback in my absence.
>>>>
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