Authorship, Licensing, Copyright...

[Mike808 <mi...@ne...>]

Well, now that we're a team and it's not just Geert and Egon anymore,
we should decide how we want to do this.

Any examples from other SourceForge teams?

How do we deal with new modules as code 'breaks up' from the original
XSLT.pm in terms of authorship and copyright holders?

I am assuming that we are unanimous in licensing under the Perl Artistic
License?

I'll look into if there's a precedent for transferring our copyrights
to the 'SourceForge XML::XSLT Project Team' in a mode similar to the
Apache copyrights and licensing. Or to Geert and Egon? Or to each
his own? Is tab conversion a 'copyrightable' activity? Crap. I just
knew it that Shakespeare was right ... my head hurts...

We should lay out our guidelines for required notices amongst ourselves
and enforce it for all files before we have to retro-fit too much.
I'm not saying it has to be complicated, just consistent and start
doing this sooner rather than later.

So far, the leading '#' pre-amble seems OK, but I'd like to put
the proper attribution to the team now that it's mangled pretty good
by all of us. I *really* think we need the CVS keyword post-amble
(minus the LOG keyword - I agree with Mark) and all POD going
after the __END__ statement. I also like the =begin internal_doc
or =begin ignore type of POD notation for lopping off big chunks of 
code or internal documentation without having to prefix each line
with a '#'. Just my twopence.

Mike.