On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 02:21:38PM +0100, Jonathan Worthington wrote: > Hi, > > I keep running accros files that at the top of the file say they are > copyrighted to individual people, then adding stuff to the code as surely > many others have. Am I right in thinking that everything is supposed to be > "Copyright The Perl Foundation"? This is what I've done with any new files > I've added, but what is the policy on this? If there's some doc I should > read, just point me at it. > > Just wondering. :-)
I believe that Allison's answer from 3 months ago is still valid: On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 08:03:13PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: > On Jul 3, 2005, at 7:42, Will Coleda wrote: > > >I was under the impression that for any code to be included in the > >parrot repository, that the copyright had to be assigned to the Perl > >Foundation. But there are exceptions to this throughout the > >repository, even in core files like imcc/main.c (Copyright Melvin > >Smith). We have a file with a Microsoft copyright in the repository. > > > >What's the official policy? Is it documented somewhere in the > >repository? (If not, can we get it documented?) > > The simple answer is yes, everything should be designated as copyright > The Perl Foundation. > > But don't worry about it too much right now. After 12 months of work, > we just about have the standard policy hammered out with the legal > folks, and we'll do one big sweeping change sometime in the next few > months. > > Thanks, > Allison ( http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.internals/30255 ) Nicholas Clark
