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| Summary: | Consistence needed between Handbook and Platform copyright statement | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Product: | Community | Reporter: | Alexander Fedorov <alexander.fedorov> |
| Component: | Process | Assignee: | Eclipse Management Organization <emo> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | jonah, wayne.beaton |
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551817 | ||
| Whiteboard: | stalebug | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 558827 | ||
> Please confirm or deny the option to use "Eclipse contributors and others"
> as an owner in the copyright header.
From the perspective of the EMO, either form of copyright statement is acceptable.
(In reply to Wayne Beaton from comment #1) > > Please confirm or deny the option to use "Eclipse contributors and others" > > as an owner in the copyright header. > > From the perspective of the EMO, either form of copyright statement is > acceptable. 1) Does this mean that one can use "Eclipse contributors and others" for the _traditional_ header? 2) Does this mean that one can use "Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation" for the _traditional_ header? I'm not sure why you're highlighting "traditional". The intention of the handbook content is to show that there are two acceptable forms. In the past (traditionally), the first form--which lists specific entities--was used exclusively. The alternative form is presented as that: an alternative. Either of those forms is fine. It's up to the project team. I see now that I responded too hastily. "Eclipse contributors and others" is not one of the options. It should be "Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation". While this conversation started with mentioning copyright header, it was (partially) inspired by the Copyright in an Eclipse Feature from the About dialog for CDT. The screenshot in the handbook contains the "Eclipse contributors and others" format: https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#the-feature-checklist A quick grep of Eclipse Platform code shows that "Eclipse contributors and others" appears in about.properties (for About dialog) and in the copyright header of some of the help HTML (e.g. https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/tree/bundles/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/whatsNew/jdt_whatsnew.html#n4) Is the screenshot incorrect? BTW the Platform code adopted this copyright notice in the About dialog in Bug 63674 Comment 0 and commit https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.git/commit/?id=b3221ddb03701777be68ee6dca53daf2e836c5c5 (In reply to Jonah Graham from comment #4) > While this conversation started with mentioning copyright header, it was > (partially) inspired by the Copyright in an Eclipse Feature from the About > dialog for CDT. > > The screenshot in the handbook contains the "Eclipse contributors and > others" format: > https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#the-feature-checklist > > A quick grep of Eclipse Platform code shows that "Eclipse contributors and > others" appears in about.properties (for About dialog) and in the copyright > header of some of the help HTML (e.g. > https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.common.git/tree/bundles/ > org.eclipse.jdt.doc.user/whatsNew/jdt_whatsnew.html#n4) > > Is the screenshot incorrect? > > BTW the Platform code adopted this copyright notice in the About dialog in > Bug 63674 Comment 0 and commit > https://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.git/commit/ > ?id=b3221ddb03701777be68ee6dca53daf2e836c5c5 @Wayne do you have an answer for us? We still have a hope to fix this for 2020-03 My answer in Comment 3 stands. If you're changing them, then please use one of the two forms indicated. I'm honestly not sure that "Eclipse contributors and others" is strictly wrong in an about file, so I'm not inclined to ask that that be changed at this time. I'll add that to my list of questions for the IP Advisory Committee and circle back if they feel that it needs to be changed. This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant. -- The automated Eclipse Genie. I assume that we're done here. Reopen if I've made a horrible, horrible mistake. |
The Eclipse Project Handbook defines two forms for copyright header: traditional and alternative [1]. Traditional requires to mention {owner} [and others] by name. Alterantive mentions "Contributors to the Eclipse Foundation" and delegates to the notice for details . The Platform now references "Eclipse contributors and others" as an owner [2]. This kind of "composite legal entity" may be useful for other platform-like projects with dozens of committers/contributers. Please confirm or deny the option to use "Eclipse contributors and others" as an owner in the copyright header. [1] https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#ip-copyright-headers [2] https://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse/Release_checklist