On 17/05/2022 10:13, Richard Purdie wrote:
I've been worrying about license and copyright information in our codebase for a while. We're slowly getting there with license info and scripts have good information now. We still need to work out license info for recipe metadata and patches but one step at a time.For copyright, I think we need a proposal, so here goes! I think we should add something, the question is what/where. There was an LF post about this: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/ and I'd like to propose we follow the recommendation there and for OE- Core, go with: "Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors" where we don't already have a copyright statement. Similarly, bitbake would be "Copyright BitBake Contributors" but I think much of bitbake does have copyright statements so is already in a better state.
This looks good to me. It's also comptatible with the https://reuse.software specification if we want to automate checking that all files have copyright & license headers in the future.
If individuals want to mention themselves as authors or named copyright holders, or it is a company requirement, that is fine too as things are today, this is mainly to cover the case where there is no current copyright. Where we have year information, we may want to phase that out as it doesn't buy us anything. I'm mentioning this as we have OEDVM on Friday and this may (or may not) be something we need to discuss. I do want to ensure people not at the meeting also see this and have an opportunity to discuss. Cheers, Richard
-- Paul Barker Principal Software Engineer SanCloud Ltd e: [email protected] w: https://sancloud.com/
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