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Re: [cdt-dev] No longer need to add contributor's name in copyright header
The line at the top of the file header still needs to identify the copyright holder of the initial contribution. This discussion is only about the previous requirement to manually update the list of contributors over time. 

So this would be the correct format:

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2015 Nathan Ridge.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *******************************************************************************/



On 19/07/2015 1:09 PM, Doug Schaefer wrote:

That's what I'm doing. Feel free to put your name there if you'd like to make clearly public you contributed the file. Minor updates shouldn't require that.

As far as I know you should still update the year. That's more a requirement of copyright law. The contributor list was more a bookkeeping thing.

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I have a couple of questions.

First, suppose I'm adding a new file. Whereas before I might have put the following comment at the top:

/*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2015 Nathan Ridge.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *
  * Contributors:
  *     Nathan Ridge - Initial API and implementation
  *******************************************************************************/

Should I now put:

/*******************************************************************************
  * Copyright (c) 2015.
  * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
  *******************************************************************************/

?

Should I still be updating the copyright year when I touch an existing file?

Thanks,
Nate

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From: marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx
To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 15:39:45 +0000
Subject: [cdt-dev] No longer need to add contributor's name in copyright header

Hi,

thanks for an initiative from Teo and the good work of the Eclipse Foundation (http://eclip.se/435933), it is no longer necessary to add the name of a contributor to the copyright header of each file they change.


Mike Milinkovich from comment #18:
So this topic has been discussed by the IP Advisory Committee, and the EMO
and there is a consensus that we will let each project decide whether or not
they want to allow names in the header, but Eclipse IP will rely fully on
the Git logs.

This is good news since adding names to copyright headers was causing merge conflicts and was annoying to contributors that had to update their contributions for this. The contribution is fully tracked by Git.

I suggest we don't forbid putting the name in the copyright headers (some contributors/committers may like to put it in some cases), but we no longer need to ask people to do it. My guess is that people will stop doing it as soon as they get a couple of merge conflicts :)

Marc
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