Hi Robert, I did suggest to remove my copyright message from the source code so I don't get your answer about "several hundred people pepper their (C) right all over the source code". If the copyright is maintained by Subversion it's fine by me.
Regards, Brede On Dec 22, 2007 3:09 PM, Robert Osfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Brede, > > On Dec 22, 2007 1:57 PM, Brede Johansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > > > The new OpenFlight loader is OSGPL. > > > > I'm looking for the appropriate way to add the license and copyright. > > Is it possible to to just have the OSGPL license in the source code > > and the copyright in a separate file? This would make the plugin look > > like the rest of the core components. Maybe others will follow so we > > can have a more consistent appearance when we browse through the code. > > I think it best to keep the license and copyright at the top of each > file. The svn repository also record the contributors and what lines > they have changed. The contributors to existing code have to abide by > the original license, but in effect have copyright over their own > changes, svn is much better place to implicitly record this than > having several hundred people pepper their (C) right all over the > source code base as its key the code has got to readable and > maintainable. > > Robert. > > _______________________________________________ > osg-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org > _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
