Re: [mantisbt-dev] License / Copyright Header

[Damien R. <dam...@me...>]

Paul Richards <paul@...> writes:

> 1) They concluded that the copyright information only needs to contain 
> the initial creation year.

It saves one commit per year to update the copyright. Which is not a big
deal (and I've actually scripted that task so it's really minimal effort to
do it - update-copyright.sh in mantisbt-tools repo). But I don't mind

> 2) They removed the (C) text from any copyright lines.

That's really cosmetic as far as I'm concerned. I don't really care either.

> Reference Links:

The links you provided do not offer any justification for the change (legal
requirement ?), just stating that they will change.

> 3) We have some files with incorrect copyright information.

The joys of copy-paste... 

> This needs fixing, but before I do, it would seem sensible to decide on 
> the best way to fix these.

Is it really worth the effort of going back and checking for each file when
it was first added to the repo ? 

As a side note, in one of your links, it's said that when merging files
created in an earlier year into the master branch, it's the *current* year
that becomes the copyright year... 

> 4) Didn't we want to move away from the GPL to a different license 
> gradually - did we ever pick said license?

Does it really matter ? What's wrong with GPL ?

> From memory I thought John added some stuff to mantis under MIT at one 
> point.

I don't think any MantisBT core code is under MIT (at least a 'git grep -w
-i mit' does not yield anything other than jquery and language files)

I know that some of John's *plugins* are under MIT though.

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