Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo Richard! On Fri, 8 May 2020 14:34:31 -0500 Richard Laager wrote: > On 5/8/20 1:10 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > I think the year of first publication still has some use as it > > disambiguates which version of copyright law applies. > > The "year of

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Richard Laager via devel
On 5/8/20 1:10 PM, Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > I think the year of first publication still has some use as it disambiguates > which version of copyright law applies. The "year of first publication" applies per copyrightable thing, so if the file has multiple changes, you

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
s at Amazon on > > software license issues. The MAGA have deemed that the current > > copyright notices in gpsd are the way they all want it done. > > > > Gary, my proposal was to follow what NTPsec is doing, exactly. yes, but I partly disagree. > Currently: > >

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-08 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:42 AM Gary E. Miller via devel wrote: > > I did this at the suggestion of Mark Atwood. He is project head for > gpsd, NTPsec and other projects. He also works at Amazon on software > license issues. The MAGA have deemed that the current copyright notices &

Re: Copyright years in source code

2020-05-06 Thread Gary E. Miller via devel
Yo John! On Wed, 06 May 2020 09:02:30 -0400 John Ackermann wrote: > As a now-retired copyright lawyer, I'd say that removing the years is > OK. Yes, but I have not removed the year of first publication, just the later years. The "(c)" and the years after first pub neer

Copyright years in source code

2020-05-05 Thread Sanjeev Gupta via devel
(cc: to devel@ntpsec) Hi, Over at the NTPsec project (whose developer community intersects with gpsd's) they have scrubbed the Copyright Year from the "Form of Notice". eg: -* Copyright (c) University of Delaware 1992-2015 * +* Copyright Univers

Re: Copyright Statement Years

2020-02-21 Thread Mark Atwood via devel
) My own curiosity Learning is always good. > 2) Wearing my Debian packager hat, in case this comes up with Debian >when I bring in the next NTPsec release with all the years scrubbed >and update debian/copyright to match. Do please scrub it from the Debian package. > 3) Becaus

Copyright Statement Years

2020-02-18 Thread Richard Laager via devel
https://blog.ntpsec.org/2020/02/15/copyright-year.html "There is no need to include the year in a copyright declaration statement. And related, there is no need to update the year statement, add new year statements, manage year range statements, or any of that stuff. It is tedious, boring,

Re: Copyright

2019-04-10 Thread James Browning via devel
On Wed, Apr 10, 2019, 4:47 PM Hal Murray via devel wrote: > > I just updated the NTS code to include a Copyright, copied from another > module. > > If this isn't appropriate, please tell me what it should be. > > /* > * nts_cookie.c - Network Time Security (NTS) coo

Copyright

2019-04-10 Thread Hal Murray via devel
I just updated the NTS code to include a Copyright, copied from another module. If this isn't appropriate, please tell me what it should be. /* * nts_cookie.c - Network Time Security (NTS) cookie processing * Copyright 2019 by the NTPsec project contributors * SPDX-License-Identifier:

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Mark Atwood
I will sweep through the documentation files, and add the correct forms and content for the copyright and license markings. ..m On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:02 PM Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Mark! > > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:58:55 + > Mark Atwood wrote: > > > When you cr

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Mark! On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 18:58:55 + Mark Atwood wrote: > When you create a new file, mark it as follows (updating the year) as > required: [...] Can you add this advice to some doc that is in tree? RGDS GARY --- G

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Mark Atwood
at 11:16 AM Daniel Poirot wrote: > What's fun is hearing "No copyright needed, I got it off Stack Overflow!" > > ...wrong > > > On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Mark Atwood wrote: > > Commercial FOSS audit tools like Protecode and Blackduck will be able to >

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Daniel Poirot
What's fun is hearing "No copyright needed, I got it off Stack Overflow!" ...wrong > On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:58 PM, Mark Atwood wrote: > > Commercial FOSS audit tools like Protecode and Blackduck will be able to > recognize the SPDX tags, and the Copyright text.

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Mark Atwood
Commercial FOSS audit tools like Protecode and Blackduck will be able to recognize the SPDX tags, and the Copyright text. In our file ntpsec/devel/hacking.txt : We use the SPDX convention for inclusion by reference. You can read about this at http://spdx.org/licenses When you create a

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Daniel Poirot
Commercial FOSS audit tools like Protecode and BlackDuck will match a snippet and attribute to the FOSS project. > On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Mark Atwood wrote: > > That's... complicated. > > We don't need to have a notice attached to every file, because there

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Mark Atwood
That's... complicated. We don't need to have a notice attached to every file, because there is a copyright notice attached to the project as a whole, and there is a notice attached to each repo. Individual files generally don't each need their own notice, since individual fil

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-30 Thread Hal Murray
fallenpega...@gmail.com said: > Right now our standard copyright text is "Copyright $YEAR_YOU_ARE_WRITING_THI > S by the NTP Project contributors" Should the documentation files have a copyright notice? -- These are my opinio

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-29 Thread Mark Atwood
copyright lengths will always be increased to keep Steamboat Willy under copyright. Right now our standard copyright text is "Copyright $YEAR_YOU_ARE_WRITING_THIS by the NTP Project contributors" After 50ish years goes by from now-ish, we can revisit. ..m On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 1:02

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-29 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Mark! On Sun, 29 Jan 2017 07:58:24 + Mark Atwood wrote: > > Do they need to be updated? I just noticed one that was 2015. > they don't require updating US Copyright is now generally 70 years after the death of the author. You plan to live that lo

Re: Copyright dates

2017-01-28 Thread Mark Atwood
they don't require updating On Sat, Jan 28, 2017, 5:38 PM Hal Murray wrote: > > Do they need to be updated? I just noticed one that was 2015. > > Should that go on the release checklist? > > > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > > > > ___ > de

Copyright dates

2017-01-28 Thread Hal Murray
Do they need to be updated? I just noticed one that was 2015. Should that go on the release checklist? -- These are my opinions. I hate spam. ___ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel