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Re: [egit-dev] Copyright in source headers
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On 22.04.14 23:27, "Robin Stocker" <robin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> HI all,
>>
>> I think our contributor guide is not in line with the Eclipse IP
>> team.
>> https://wiki.eclipse.org/EGit/Contributor_Guide#Copyright
>>
>> From http://www.eclipse.org/legal/copyrightandlicensenotice.php:
>> Š If the content is subsequently modified and appended to by other
>> copyright owners, the words "and others" are typically appended.
>> [..] The words "and others" are used to avoid having to list every
>> copyright owner [..] ...
>>
>> I also think it mixes up authors with copyright owners. Any
>> objections if I change it to reduce the clutter and bring it inline
>> with the suggestions of the foundation?
>
>What would you like to change specifically?
>
>We currently have a mixture of copyright headers in EGit. I'd like
>to simplify it to just the single line "and others" form, but it
>would require a big commit changing some of the existing headers.
>Not sure if we want to do that.
That would be nice. IANAL, but would we have to ask the people whose name
we remove?
>
>Well, I would like it even more if it just said "Please look at the
>output of `git log`", but apparently legal people like redundancy ;).
>
>Regards,
> Nibor
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