Hi Christian and All
OK, let's see if anyone has such a strict policy.
Adolfo, on behalf of Open Canarias, is happy to see Open Canarias in
the contributor line.
Working in my own time, I do not require Thales mentioned at all. I am
the initial author of
a couple of files that show IBM copyright.
? Borland
? Obeo
Christian: do/did Zeligsoft require/merit the top line credit. Can we
revert to the initial copyright
holder only recommendation of
http://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyrightandlicensenotice.php?
Regards
Ed Willink
Kenn Hussey wrote:
Ed,
I agree that, in principle, only the companies receiving "top
line credit" should be those that have made the most significant
contribution to a given source file... but some companies have
restrictions governing their copyright which might require explicit
mention. I don't think an entry in the list of contributions is
sufficient to identify copyright, so in such cases both may be required.
As a rule of thumb, I'd lead toward listing the original author
(company) as the only named copyright holder unless the company has a
strict policy (as described above), in which case it should also be
explicitly listed. As for entries in the list of contributions, I think
they should always be included, although some projects (e.g. EMF) are
hesitant to do so...
Cheers,
Kenn
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Ed Willink <ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi
We could easily find ourselves maintaining copyright notices such as
IBM Corporation, Zeligsoft Inc., Borland Software Corp., Obeo, Open
Canarias, E.D.Willink and others
I think this is untenable and gets more so with each further
team/employment change.
I feel that Christain made a mistake by adding Zeligsoft.
A plausible policy is that the Copyright is just to the initial
contributor with everyone else thereafter "and others".
Zeligsoft should not have been added.
Another plausible policy is that a top line credit appears only once
10% of the useful line count is contributed.
Since we are now directed to make the Eclipse Modeling Project the
plug-in provider, I propose that when
a non-trivial edit occurs the copyright is changed to "Eclipse Modeling
Project and others". The list of
contributions; e.g. IBM - initial API and implementation provides
adequate credit.
Regards
Ed Willink
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