Re: [mdt-ocl.dev] Unwieldy Copyright Notices

[Laurent Goubet <laurent.goubet@xxxxxxx>]

All,

On behalf of Obeo, I'm perfectly fine with being within the "and others" 
part, as long as newly created files have their copyright set to 
"copyright (c) <original contributor's company> and others"... but I 
believe that's never been questionned here :).

Laurent Goubet
Obeo

Ed Willink a écrit :
> 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 
> > <mailto: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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