On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 13:57, Derick Rethans <der...@php.net> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Jan 2019, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > > > > > I would like to make two changes to this header: > > > > > > 1. Change "PHP Version 7" line to just "PHP", to avoid the necessity of > > > updating this for > > > new major versions. I don't think the version information here is > > > particularly useful to > > > anybody. > > > > I don't mind that much, but I don't see any issue with keeping it the way > > it is either. It does look nicer the way it is now IMHO, and the cost > > associated with changing it twice a decade is, well, not very substantial. > > > > > 2. Remove the "Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group" line. Apart from > > > requiring a > > > yearly update, this line is actually complete misinformation, because the > > > PHP group > > > does *not* hold the copyright for the PHP source code. This would require > > > a copyright > > > assignment agreement on behalf of all contributors, which we do not > > > collect. > > > > > > We could also just drop the header entirely, I'm just proposing these two > > > changes as > > > the path of least resistance towards getting the "annoying" parts removed. > > > > I'm no lawyer, but I do believe a case can be made for claiming that a > > person putting code into files with the header 'Copyright (c) XYZ', is > > in fact implicitly assigning copyright to XYZ. So while it's not as > > strong as an explicit copyright assignment, and while it was never > > tested in court (and hopefully never will be) - I do see value in > > keeping it. I certainly don't see a reason to change it after 20 > > years where it didn't seem to bother anybody, unless there's a strong > > reason to do that, which currently I don't see. > > It could be changed to "1997-present" though, in which case it doesn't > need updating once a year (and messing up history in VCS). > > cheers, > Derick > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >
Hello, I've prepared quick pull request [1] that fixes the missed headers in source code files and additionally bumps or changes the year range on other places. Questions: 1.) What should "php -v" output regarding copyrights and year ranges? 2.) What should "man php" include under the COPYRIGHT section regarding the year ranges? 3.) Similarly, should there be a common pattern for places like phpinfo() output? Thanks. [1] https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/3791 -- Peter Kokot -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
