Hello everybody,
since all the java headers are updated I'm wondering about missing
headers in other resource files, e.g. applicationContext.xml and
GeoServerApplication*.properties
Some of the applicationContext files have the following license header
include whereas others (e.g. in community and extensions sub-modules)
haven't any header at all.
<!--
Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans - www.openplans.org. All rights
reserved.
This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, available at the root
application directory.
-->
Is it contributor-dependent or is all the code under the same Copyright?
Should I raise a ticket at JIRA?
I assume we should consolidate all these files as well and add the same
header.
For properties files it would a header would look like this:
# Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans - www.openplans.org. All rights
reserved.
# This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, available at the root
# application directory.
But how do we deal with contributions coming from external platforms in the
future - like the translated properties files from Transifex.com (
https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/geoserver/). Is it a must to have a
header for properties files or just optional?
Any opinions?
Cheers, Frank
2013/1/10 Jody Garnett <jody.garn...@gmail.com>
> Asked folks at OpenPlans and they said:
>
> *Yes, we legally changed our name to OpenPlans, Inc a couple of years
> ago, so if the copyright was assigned to TOPP it should be assigned to
> OpenPlans. *
> *
> *
> The year it changed was 2010.
>
> So I guess we need to update our headers. I can volunteer some time given
> that it should just boil down to some script writing. How should the header
> read exactly? Should we just change TOPP to OpenPlans or should we include
> both entities with a date range for topp like:
>
> /* Copyright (c) 2010 - 2013 OpenPlans - www.openplans.org. All rights
> reserved.
> * Copyright (c) 2001 - 2010 TOPP - www.openplans.org. All rights
> reserved.
> * This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, availible at the root
> * application directory.
> */
>
> Or just:
>
>
> /* Copyright (c) 2001 - 2013 OpenPlans - www.openplans.org. All rights
> reserved.
> * This code is licensed under the GPL 2.0 license, availible at the root
> * application directory.
> */
>
> Good question :P
>
> I would go for the second one (easier search and replace - and it is the
> same legal entity?)
> (and because you are changing the file you can update the end of the date
> range to say 2013 in each case).
>
> Jody
>
>
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