So if the other universities didn't actually contribute to these files (but were just part of the consortium), then for those particular files Manchester's sole copyright would still be valid. I doubt the consortium agreement would actually require re-assignment of copyright .
Shoaib - are you able to check for those files? They are from 2008, 2009. git log --follow ./src/main/java/org/apache/taverna/ui/perspectives/myexperiment/model/License.java ends with commit 77cf3e0f91d2c8f96be77c63f1ea12d08a97d485 Author: [email protected] <[email protected]@bf327186-88b3-11dd-a302-d386e5130c1c> Date: Wed Oct 7 10:47:49 2009 +0000 The pulled-in initial perspective for myExperiment git-svn-id: https://taverna.googlecode.com/svn/taverna/ui/net.sf.taverna.t2.ui-components/trunk@8421 bf327186-88b3-11dd-a302-d386e5130c1c Alan - would you remember where it was pulled from? I found only: http://wiki.myexperiment.org/index.php/Developer:Taverna_plugin which implies it's from version 1.7 and included WHIP plugin (that's a Southampton thing, right?). Did it first live in Rubyforge or http://www.trianacode.org/ ? (http://www.trianacode.org/whipplugin/source-repository.html does not seem to have contained myexperiment plugin) On 7 September 2016 at 13:00, Ian Dunlop <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Errrm. It's just academic politics :) Probably based on whatever grant was > providing the funding for it. Needs some clarification though. > > Cheers, > > Ian > > On 7 September 2016 at 12:49, Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I found this nasty sed kind of worked for our particular license header >> >> find . -type f -name *java | xargs sed -i '\,.*Copyright .*University >> of Manchester,,+17 d' >> >> (leaving behind the /***** ****/ lines) >> >> >> but this requires careful "git diff" as there were some odd ones like >> >> // Copyright (C) 2008 The University of Manchester, University of >> Southampton >> // and Cardiff University >> package org.apache.taverna.ui.perspectives.myexperiment.model; >> >> This is in various files in the myExperiment plugin, e.g. >> >> https://github.com/apache/incubator-taverna-workbench/ >> search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=Cardiff >> >> >> Do anyone remember why this particular copyright? Did Southampton and >> Cardiff even contribute here? Did they not sign the CLAs to >> Manchester? >> >> What's odd is that the @author hints at Manchester folks, e.g. >> >> > * @author Jiten Bhagat, Sergejs Aleksejevs >> >> >> -- >> Stian Soiland-Reyes >> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718 >> -- Stian Soiland-Reyes http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
