On 2013-10-20 20:57:56 +0800 (+0800), Thomas Goirand wrote: > Well, good luck finding all the copyright holders for such a large and > old project. It's not really practical in this case, unfortunately.
To a great extent, the same goes for projects a quarter the size and age of the Linux kernel--doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fix that though. In our case, we at least have names and (possibly stale) contact information for all the people who claim to have authored contributions, so I suspect we're in a somewhat better position to do something about it. Part of the issue is that historically the project has held a laissez faire position that claiming copyright on contributions is voluntary, and that if you don't feel your modifications to a particular file are worthy of copyright (due to triviality or whatever) then there was no need to update a copyright statement for new holders or years. So the assumption there was that copyrights which an author wanted to assert were claimed in the files they touched, and if they didn't update the copyright statement on a change that was their prerogative. I think we collectively know that this isn't really how copyright works in most Berne Convention countries, but I also don't think reviewers would object to any copyright holder adding a separate commit to update valid copyright claims on a particular file which they previously neglected to document. -- Jeremy Stanley _______________________________________________ OpenStack-dev mailing list OpenStack-dev@lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
