[PATCH weston] Update COPYING

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Wed Mar 1 01:20:05 UTC 2017


Hi Bryce,

On 1 March 2017 at 00:22, Bryce Harrington <bryce at osg.samsung.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:17:21PM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
>> Yeah, I don't think we're big enough that having separate files makes
>> much sense. What I'm mostly just stuck with is the copyright
>> statements: at the moment, we list a few but don't go on to list any
>> others. I'd suggest an incomplete statement is the worst of both
>> worlds: should we maybe just list the applicable licenses with a
>> 'Copyright © 2008-2017 multiple authors' and the license text, with a
>> note to check the individual files to determine who owns copyright
>> over which part?
>
> Yes, that seems like a good approach to me.  That should address all the
> points.
>
> I probably would avoid the 'multiple authors' phrasing in the individual
> .c files as probably too ambiguous legally, however I've seen plenty of
> projects use that in their code.

Oh yes, totally: I was only talking about COPYING here, and want to
just leave the individual files as they are.

Cheers,
Daniel


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