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List:       openembedded-architecture
Subject:    Re: [Openembedded-architecture] OE-Core copyright notices
From:       "Richard Purdie" <richard.purdie () linuxfoundation ! org>
Date:       2022-08-10 20:07:05
Message-ID: 1ed9158febbd325d8f7732d59ebe5abccc231bce.camel () linuxfoundation ! org
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On Tue, 2022-05-17 at 10:13 +0100, Richard Purdie via
lists.openembedded.org wrote:
> I've been worrying about license and copyright information in our
> codebase for a while. We're slowly getting there with license info and
> scripts have good information now. We still need to work out license
> info for recipe metadata and patches but one step at a time.
> 
> For copyright,  I think we need a proposal, so here goes!
> 
> I think we should add something, the question is what/where. There was
> an LF post about this:
> 
> https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/
> 
> and I'd like to propose we follow the recommendation there and for OE-
> Core, go with:
> 
> "Copyright OpenEmbedded Contributors"
> 
> where we don't already have a copyright statement. Similarly, bitbake
> would be "Copyright BitBake Contributors" but I think much of bitbake
> does have copyright statements so is already in a better state.
> 
> If individuals want to mention themselves as authors or named copyright
> holders, or it is a company requirement, that is fine too as things are
> today, this is mainly to cover the case where there is no current
> copyright.
> 
> Where we have year information, we may want to phase that out as it
> doesn't buy us anything.
> 
> I'm mentioning this as we have OEDVM on Friday and this may (or may
> not) be something we need to discuss. I do want to ensure people not at
> the meeting also see this and have an opportunity to discuss. 

I've gone ahead and sent some patches for this for OE-Core and BitBake.
There is more work to do so if anyone has a few minutes and wants to
clean up a few more file headers, further improvements would be very
welcome.

Cheers,

Richard


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