Re: [ee4j-pmc] Copyright headers

["Kevin Sutter" <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just a quick follow-up to Mark's note since
the MicroProfile project had the exact same type of questions when we first
started out...  Our discussions with the EMO (Eclipse Mgmt Office)
resulted in some of the changes that you found in the handbook.

We ended up with this...

/**********************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2017 Contributors
to the Eclipse Foundation
 *
 * See the NOTICES file(s) distributed
with this work for additional
 * information regarding copyright
ownership.

And, then our NOTICE file(s) would have
something along these lines...

Portions of this software were originally
based on the following:
* microprofile.io bill of materials
  https://github.com/microprofile/microprofile-bom
  under Apache License, v2.0

SPDXVersion: SPDX-2.1
PackageName: Eclipse Microprofile
PackageHomePage: http://www.eclipse.org/microprofile
PackageLicenseDeclared: Apache-2.0

PackageCopyrightText: <text>
Ken Finnigan ken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Ivan St. Ivanov ivan.st.ivanov@xxxxxxxxx,
Kevin Sutter kwsutter@xxxxxxxxx,
Ondrej Mihalyi ondrej.mihalyi@xxxxxxxxx
</text>

In the case of the Oracle contributions, we need to leave the original
Copyright as is for Oracle.  But, going forward with new changes,
we can add a more generic Copyright for the Eclipse Foundation and then
create the necessary NOTICE files to list out the additional contributors.
 Sound good?

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From:      
 Mark Thomas <markt@xxxxxxxxxx>
To:      
 ee4j-pmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date:      
 04/05/2018 04:28 AM
Subject:    
   Re: [ee4j-pmc]
Copyright headers
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Ignore me.

I've been pointed towards:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.eclipse.org_projects_handbook_-23ip-2Dcopyright-2Dheaders&d=DwIGaQ&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=R9dtOS3afYnRUmu_zogmh0VnVYl2tse_V7QBUA9yr_4&m=usL3BYbzBfjUtXAiYJBsCUh5foa1vSKvLLUmCedFhnI&s=te91vpZV_SL9DNe_-obywO7-xqh53KTpu-OkoWTMGp4&e=

that answers this question.

Sorry for the noise.

Mark


On 05/04/18 08:51, Mark Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm guessing the PMC list is the right venue for this discussion.
Feel
> free to point me elsewhere if not.
> 
> The imported files from Oracle contain copyright headers along these
lines:
> 
> Copyright (c) 2012, 2017 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights
reserved.
> 
> 
> The question has arisen "How should the copyright header be updated
when
> we start making changes to these files?"
> 
> There are a number of factors:
> 
> - Eclipse committers retain copyright in their own contributions.
> - Eclipse (probably) has copyright in the collective work that results
>   from the combination of the original contribution and the changes
from
>   the Eclipse committers.
> - There may have been (I have no visibility) a copyright assignment
when
>   the Oracle donated the code to Eclipse.
> - Other factors of which I am not aware.
> 
> 
> Looking at some other Eclipse projects it seems like updating the
header
> as follows might be the way to go:
> 
> Copyright (c) 2012, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates and others.
All
> rights reserved.
> 
> where the second copyright year is updated to the current year when
the
> first modification is made in that year.
> 
> Is the proposed approach above correct? If not, what is the correct
> approach and can the various projects be informed of the correct
> approach because, at the moment, individual projects are not approaching
> this in a consistent manner.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark
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