Licence and copyright information

[ErwinJanssen]

There are multiple licence files

• LICENCE
• ep-v10.html
• ep-v10.txt
• COPYING

This clutters the repository, so I wondered if they should all be kept, or if some could be removed.

Most code files contain the following licence / copyright information

/*************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property 
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors: See CVS logs. Details at http://www.graphviz.org/
 *************************************************************************/

This message is outdated. The year is long past, AT&T doesn't support this software any more and instead of CVS, Git is being used. What should be done with this message?

Also, what message, if any, should new code files contain. I plan to do some refactoring and add some files.

[graphviz]

Greetings. I don’t believe the copyright can be changed. I don’t know if anything was done to the work to warrant an updated copyright date. We could say: See logs.

I thought some previous repo or packager wanted to see LICENSE and COPYING, hence the reason to have all those file names.

On Jul 14, 2016, at 11:17 AM, Erwin Janssen [email protected] wrote:

There are multiple licence files

LICENCE ep-v10.html ep-v10.txt COPYING This clutters the repository, so I wondered if they should all be kept, or if some could be removed.

Most code files contain the following licence / copyright information

/*************************************************************************

• Copyright (c) 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property
• All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
• are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
• which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
• http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html *
• Contributors: See CVS logs. Details at http://www.graphviz.org/ *************************************************************************/ This message is outdated. The year is long past, AT&T doesn't support this software any more and instead of CVS, Git is being used. What should be done with this message?

Also, what message, if any, should new code files contain. I plan to do some refactoring and add some files.

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[ellson]

GNU and RPM conventions require the license file to be called COPYING

Automake will actually create a COPYING with the wrong GNU license if it is not already there. At one time I had code that ran after automake to copy ep-v10.txt to COPYING to be sure that we had the right one. It looks like now its just in the repo, a bit redundantly I agree.

Ideally, ep-v10.txt, should be the single master for all of these,
but I don't think its really worth worrying about.

I don't know what the rule is for the year in Copyright statements. Seems crazy to have to update it every year.

AFAIK, the AT&T Copyright still applies, but the code is released under the EPL License.

The note about the CVS Logs should probably be changed.

John

On 07/14/2016 11:17 AM, Erwin Janssen wrote:

There are multiple licence files

• LICENCE
• ep-v10.html
• ep-v10.txt
• COPYING

This clutters the repository, so I wondered if they should all be kept, or if some could be removed.

Most code files contain the following licence / copyright information

|/*************************************************************************

• Copyright (c) 2011 AT&T Intellectual Property * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * * Contributors: See CVS logs. Details at http://www.graphviz.org/ *************************************************************************/ |

This message is outdated. The year is long past, AT&T doesn't support this software any more and instead of CVS, Git is being used. What should be done with this message?

Also, what message, if any, should new code files contain. I plan to do some refactoring and add some files.

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[ErwinJanssen]

Thank you both for your replies, it seems there is no quick solution for the licence files.

So the copyright statement should stay the same for existing files, maybe the follow is suitable for newly created files?

/*************************************************************************
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under
 * the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this
 * distribution, and is available at:
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors: See version control history
 * Details at https://github.com/ellson/graphviz
 *************************************************************************/

I'm not sure whether changing the message about version control and different website in existing files has priority. What do you think?