Dropping copyright lines from frequent contributors

[keszybz]

Information about who contributed to which file is already covered by git log and git blame much better. The "copyright by" lines that added manually are often out of date and just unnecessary boilerplate. In particular, all works are covered by copyright without any explicit notice since the 1971 Berne Convention.

Following #9274 and #9302, I'd like to drop the remaining "Copyright" lines. Explicit permission from all "owners" of such a line is requested. There is a long tail of names with just one or a few entries, and getting an answer from all those people would be hard, so I'm targeting just the more frequent contributors for now. If you are OK with dropping your copyright line, please say so in this ticket.
(And If you're not OK, also please say so, so we can keep track.) I'll prepare a patch once there's enough answers.

/cc @teg, @kaysievers, @ssahani, @phomes, @dvdhrm, @ronnychevalier, @zonque, @bluetech, @michich, @haraldh, @titanous, @rojkov, @yuwata, @shawnl, @intelfx

[I used

git grep -h 'Copyright' | sed -r -n 's/.*Copyright.*[0-9,-]+\s*(.+)\s*($|<).*/\1/p'|sort|uniq -c|sort -g

but it's counting is terribly broken.]

[intelfx]

If you are OK with dropping your copyright line, please say so in this ticket

Yes, I'm of course fine with that.

[ronnychevalier]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 10:38 AM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek ***@***.***> wrote: Information about who contributed to which file is already covered by git log and git blame much better. The "copyright by" lines that added manually are often out of date and just unnecessary boilerplate. In particular, all works are covered by copyright without any explicit notice since the 1971 Berne Convention. Following #9274 and #9302, I'd like to drop the remaining "Copyright" lines. Explicit permission from all "owners" of such a line is requested. There is a long tail of names with just one or a few entries, and getting an answer from all those people would be hard, so I'm targeting just the more frequent contributors for now. If you are OK with dropping your copyright line, please say so in this ticket.

Ok for me

[rojkov]

I'm OK.

[teg]

I'm ok

[kaysievers]

OK

[zonque]

Sure, go ahead!

[dvdhrm]

Sure.

[michich]

I am OK with this.

[titanous]

Sure.

[ssahani]

ok

[shawnl]

Ok

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[phomes]

Ok. No problem.

[yuwata]

Ok.

[keszybz]

@bluetech, @davidstrauss, @dbuch, @victorenator, @sebth, @pabigot, @michaelolbrich @Mic92, @zx2c4, @flokli, @filbranden, @falconindy, @rhatdan, @martinpitt ?

[poettering]

Hmm, reopening, because afaics we are still lacking some responses.

[falconindy]

Ack.

[flokli]

Sure, ACK.

[pabigot]

OK.

[martinpitt]

ACK (I don't care about these lines really)

[rhatdan]

ACK

[victorenator]

OK

[filbranden]

OK with me.

[Mic92]

ok.

[davidstrauss]

Okay by me.

[dbuch]

Ok

[haraldh]

ok

[sebth]

OK.

[keszybz]

@mbiebl, @gregkh, @mvollmer, @keybuk, @maximlevitsky, @hreinecke, @marineam, @zx2c4, @andir, @mlankhorst, @joshtriplett, @jsynacek ?

[keszybz]

@philips ?

[mbiebl]

sure

[andir]

OK for me.

[michaelolbrich]

ok

[philips]

Fine by me @philips

[maximlevitsky]

Fine with me too. Best regards, Maxim Levitsky

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On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, 20:00 Brandon Philips, ***@***.***> wrote: Fine by me @philips <https://github.com/philips> — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#9320 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AHI_cSoZkRGMoic5bsa7J8sJDDRzPAqgks5uJ1LFgaJpZM4UrWr7> .

[keybuk]

No.

[piotrdrag]

Sure, OK.

[mvollmer]

Ok.

[keszybz]

Most copyright lines were dropped. A few remain, either for authors who refused or didn't reply. Let's close this.

[Conan-Kudo]

I'm okay with this for everything but macros.systemd.in and triggers.systemd.in files, since these files have to be copied out for people to use it in packaging, and so it's decoupled from the source tree.