On Tue, 14 May 2019 20:10:32 +0200 Patrick Georgi via coreboot coreboot@coreboot.org wrote:
Hi everybody,
Hi,
# How to handle copyright notices The coreboot project has had issues with copyright notices for a long time, and we’d like to start to address it. We currently don’t have any guide on when it’s ok to add a copyright, and when it isn’t.
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Please rank these choices:
- Create an authors file and remove all existing copyright lines
- Create an authors file but leave existing copyright lines
- Don’t create an authors file or change existing copyright lines
As I'm not an expert on the strategic and legal consequences of such changes, I've asked around and I was pointed to some references on the topic: https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html...
There is also an example on how the GNU project does that: https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Copyright-Notices https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#Recording-Contributors https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/maintain.html#License-Notices
Denis.