On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 10:13 +0100, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org 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. > > 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.
I've gone ahead and sent some patches for this for OE-Core and BitBake. There is more work to do so if anyone has a few minutes and wants to clean up a few more file headers, further improvements would be very welcome. Cheers, Richard
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