> For example, it is quite common that code from other developers, installed on > our customers systems, come to our company to work with. And many times it is > really difficult to discover who are the actual authors, the actual > license(s) (when not in Odoo) and the actual copyright date(s). > Indeed, many times we discover that somebody has taken over and > re-licensed/copyrighted the code of original authors who didn't include their > copyright information within their files. Who is morally guilty in such a > case?
You. You should never use code that you don't know where it comes from. Do you think that those 4 variables give any actual legal protections? Anybody could just have put or replaced those lines without any "right" to do so. Having 4 globals variables in every source file is ugly and unmaintainable ( and who's the copyright holder of modules wrote by multiple people, integrated with multiple PRs, ported by another set of people?) and for what? a false sense of "legal protection" and security. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community Post to : openerp-community@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openerp-community More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
