Dear coreboot folks,
could you please unify the Google copyright notices.
For some time »The Chromium OS Authors.« was used. This exists also without a space in »ChromiumOS« in the repository.
The latest commits seem to prefer »Google, Inc.«.
To avoid confusion, could this please be unified to the recommended one.
Thanks,
Paul
just be aware that corporations do change policies over time, including how to name authors in contributions.
Which is to say, I would not be willing to assert that an employee of company X would always be required to follow the same rules about copyright and author naming. Going back and retroactively changing everything is usually Not An Option/A Bad Idea. Hence, it is possible that a name might change over time, from the same person, at the same company.
I'm not saying that is happening in this case. But I think you're being a little unrealistic.
ron
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:27 AM, Paul Menzel < paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
could you please unify the Google copyright notices.
For some time »The Chromium OS Authors.« was used. This exists also
without a space in »ChromiumOS« in the repository.
I may be one of those who used both "ChromiumOS" and "Chromium OS" because I simply copied from other files in repo; just double confirmed again that "Chromium OS Authors" is the better answer for now, so I've also fixed all my changes on gerrit. Sorry for the confusion :)
The latest commits seem to prefer »Google, Inc.«.
And just to clarify that only people who works for Chromium OS project will use "Chromium OS Authors" - so you may still see "Google Inc", if that comes from a Google engineer who is not working in Chromium OS.
To avoid confusion, could this please be unified to the recommended one
Regards, Hung-Te
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