To close the loop on this--

We had a discussion off-line today and decided that since we're contributing code to a third-party project which is not necessarily part of Chromium OS we should assign copyright to "Google Inc." rather than "The Chromium OS Authors." This coincides with the typical process Google employees use for releasing open-source code.

A lot of confusion seems to stem from using "The Chromium OS Authors" when checking code into a repository hosted on chromium.org, which is our standard procedure. I've added a pre-submit check for developers working on Chrome/Chromium OS so that developers on our use the correct copyright line for files in our repository before sending patches upstream: https://gerrit.chromium.org/gerrit/#/c/42569/ .

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8:48 PM, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Hung-Te Lin <hungte@chromium.org> wrote:

> For same reason, for new commits we can be more careful to use latest
> correct copyright string, but it seems no harm to keep old files as-is. What
> do you think?

don't change old strings.

thanks

ron

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