On Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:20:59 +0100 "M.-A. Lemburg" <m...@egenix.com> wrote: > Nadeem Vawda wrote: > > I was wondering what the policy is regarding copyright notices and license > > boilerplate text at the top of source files. > > > > I am currently rewriting the bz2 module (see > > http://bugs.python.org/issue5863), > > splitting the existing Modules/bz2module.c into Modules/_bz2module.c and > > Lib/bz2.py. > > > > Are new files expected to include a copyright notice and/or license > > boilerplate > > text? > > Since you'll be adding new IP to Python, the new code you write should > contain your copyright and the standard PSF contributor agreement > notice, e.g.
I agree with Raymond's argument that we shouldn't add *new* copyright boilerplate: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-January/085267.html (the original question was about whether to keep the old one) Authorship (and therefore "IP") is much better documented by version control than by static chunks of text. These often become hopelessly outdated, and therefore give wrong information about who actually authored the code. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
