On 07/19/13 11:43 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
No. When the copyright is in file, it becomes far easier to validate ownership, and far harder for an infringing party to claim ignorance. Technically no copyright notice at all is*required*, but having the notices gives additional impact when a case is brought forward against an infringing party.
A much longer explanation of this, written by licensed lawyers who serve as legal counsel to many major open source projects, is posted at: https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html The system Garrett describes for illumos is covered in the Best Practices as the "Maintaining file-scope copyright notices" method - since illumos uses a license with file scope (the CDDL), and individual files are copied out of it into other projects for their ZFS & Dtrace implementations, it fits well. (Like Garrett, I don't speak for OI, or anyone but myself, currently in my fifth year of serving on the Board of Directors of an open source foundation (X.Org), and past the decade point of managing our corporate code contributions to X.Org, and thus exposed to far more of the legal issues around open source than is healthy.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
