[JPP-Devel] copyright policy

[Stefan S. <ss...@ge...>]

Hei all developers,

while answering on an email on the JTS list, I saw that for 
DeleteDublicateGeometries I am still carrying the copyright although the 
class was changed by others (see the header below).

However, for the test-class it was used:

Copyright (C) 2012  The JUMP/OpenJUMP contributors

for those who do not know: keeping the copyright notice apart from the 
license notice allows the author to reuse code later in another product 
... you never know ;) (And this has been important for ISA and will be 
probably for the ADBToolbox makers)

http://www.majordojo.com/2010/07/license-vs-copyright.php

However, an option as well is to use term "JUMP/OpenJUMP contributors" 
as you did for the test class.I haven't seen before that we use that. 
This wouldn't allow any of us to reuse code in products with other 
licenses - as it is not clear who the "JUMP/OpenJUMP contributors" 
are/have been (... in lets say 5 years). But it clarifies that this 
contribution comes from the project - and is important as well.

So, any opinions on that? Did you guys talk about that in the last year 
when I was off the grid?

My opinion is that each author should decide from himself what he is 
going to put there, and OpenJUMP contributors seems to me a good "tag" 
(or shall we use "JUMP Pilot Project"?).

If we have a agreement on that we need to write that as project policy 
somewhere (wiki - developer area). So, that those who want to contribute 
know the rules before-hand.

stefan

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