I think what Nils says applies internationally, not just in the NL. A copyright claim for any project which sports at least one easily discoverable licence file in its SCM and in each major artifact should be easy to defend against any licence violations. Legally, redundant copies are totally unnecessary. This whole licence copying mania only serves the purpose to increase the probability of licence discovery from 99% to 99.5%.
Whoever uses OSS source code accidentally, will be glad to remove it or acknowledge the licence if you tell him to. Whoever steals it on purpose is probably smart enough to remove licence headers from source code and config files anyway. This whole practice, however many years established and followed like cargo cult, is simply a waste of time and resources that does not increase or decrease any party's chances of winning or losing in court by one iota. I think, we should let it go. Apologies to the person starting the thread, asking a different question, for straying somewhat off topic. -- Alexander Kriegisch https://scrum-master.de Nils Breunese schrieb am 30.03.2024 14:26 (GMT +01:00): > Timothy Stone <tst...@petmystone.com> wrote: > >> Organizationally, we lack a policy and much of our code lacks even a >> "copyright." > > Where I live (The Netherlands) there is no need to explicitly add a copyright > notice to the work you create, you automatically have the copyright on > anything > you create (not just software). But laws are not the same all over the world, > which I guess is why many organizations add an explicit copyright notice in > each individual source file. > > Nils. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org
