Jody, I am happy to proceed with file creation/contribution date despite my small reservations. I think that file creation/contribution date is the option that has consensus at this time; it will solve the date maintenance overhead problem that is the reason for this change.
I move that you ask OSGeo to obtain legal advice on this matter. I see this as a low priority but I think it would be nice to get some advice for long-term guidance. And thanks to everyone for their contributions to this thread. It has clarified my views on copyright headers and and changed my views on @author tags. Kind regards, Ben. On 21/05/16 12:06, Jody Garnett wrote: > OSGeo is able to obtain legal advice, as PMC representative I can make that > request on behalf of our project. As one of the early projects in OSGeo > other projects will be following our lead. > > To close this one out I would be content to update our policy to be file > creation/contribution date - and if you wish to make the motion Ben we can > formally ask OSGeo to obtain legal advice (they may do so directly or via > reaching out to another foundation with legal staff). > -- > Jody Garnett > > On 20 May 2016 at 13:50, Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> wrote: > >> Many stackexchange comments on common law copyright and registration >> relate to the US prior its accession to the Berne convention (1989). Please >> see later comments and this: >> https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/copyright >> >> Furthermore, and I am not a lawyer, can you copyright an individual source >> code file? Is it not like the page of a book? >> >> As this is an OSGeo project, and OSGeo is incorporated in the United >> States, we should give consideration to US law. >> >> Jody, does OSGeo have a policy on whether dates are required in copyright >> headers? Does copyright reside in a single source code file or GeoTools as >> a work as a whole? Is OSGeo able to obtain legal advice these matters? >> >> Kind regards, >> Ben. >> > -- Ben Caradoc-Davies <b...@transient.nz> Director Transient Software Limited <http://transient.nz/> New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM restrictions. Mobile Device Manager Plus allows you to control only the apps on BYO-devices by containerizing them, leaving personal data untouched! https://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/304595813;131938128;j _______________________________________________ GeoTools-Devel mailing list GeoTools-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geotools-devel
