There's a pull request for the new policy in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/ClusterLabs/pacemaker/pull/1716
On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 10:08 -0600, Ken Gaillot wrote: > Hi all, > > Until now, Pacemaker's policy for copyright notices has been to let > the > original author of a file write the notice, and then just update the > year after that, regardless of who else edits the file. > > As time goes on, and especially as Pacemaker creator Andrew Beekhof > reduces his involvement, that's becoming awkward. Most files have > been > edited by numerous contributors. > > Red Hatter Jan Pokorný raised the issue recently, and we came up with > some ideas. After running those by a lawyer, we arrived at this > proposed copyright notice for Pacemaker files: > > Copyright YYYY-YYYY the Pacemaker project contributors > > The version control history for this file may have further > details. > > It was interesting to me at least that copyright notices do not > affect > copyright ownership at all; they are merely hints for who to go > asking > about it. Actual copyright ownership follows applicable laws and > regulations, which for most countries say that copyright attaches to > the author, or to the employer if the work was produced as a work for > hire. (That of course is my non-lawyerly understanding of the > matter.) > > The proposed notice above points to the version control, which > provides > information about the authors of each change to the file. That should > generally be sufficient, but if any author wants an explicit > copyright > notice for their changes, they can put that in their commit message. > > If there are no objections, I'll formalize that as the Pacemaker > project policy. I've already cleared it with Beekhof, so I'll update > files with his notice to the new format, and also contact other > people > as needed for other files. -- Ken Gaillot <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/developers
