1) I agree, but don't have a proposal yet, just throwing out some ideas... 2) What do the programs say now? Sun Microsystems?
>From my point of view for utilities it is ok to just use people's names, if there are 1-4 main creators. If there are more (for larger components like drizzled) then we should just have some common line like "Copyright (c) 1995-2011, by various Drizzle project contributors" Examples: "Boots command line database client. Copyright (c) 2010, Clark Boylan, Mark Goodman and other contributors." "Welcome to Drizzle. Copyright (c) 1995-2011 by Drizzle project contributors." If we wish to pay homage to our MySQL/Sun heritage (which is not a bad idea, imho), one could use something like. "Welcome to Drizzle. Copyright (c) 1995-2011 by Drizzle project contributors. Based on MySQL code copyright Sun Microsystems Inc." Finally, to all of the above, consider appending "See individual source files for details." HTH henrik On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Brian Aker <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi! > > I am pretty fond of people continuing to hold their own copyright on files, > and I really dislike the concept of copyright assignment. > > That being said, a number of our programs print out copyrights in their help > information. > > What should we update this too? I'd like to see continued notices, but I do > not believe we want it printing out dozens of names as different people touch > the files. > > Any thoughts? > > Cheers, > -Brian > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- [email protected] +358-40-8211286 skype: henrik.ingo irc: hingo www.openlife.cc My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=9522559 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
