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