On Mon, 23 May 2022, at 09:26, Paul Barker wrote: > 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.
reuse compatibility would be pretty useful and we can give in this way an example for community layers. Andrei
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