We do not reserve all rights.
We should remove all comments from the tops of files. We already have a license file in the repo that explains this. notes in the source files themselves are either redundant or conflicting.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T87268 Copyright license and attribution issues (tracking) | |||
| Invalid | None | T149179 Attribution and copyright tasks for the iOS app (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T149184 [EPIC] License of the iOS app | |||
| Resolved | None | T127394 EPIC: Text Changes | |||
| Resolved | JoeWalsh | T99825 Remove all "All rights reserved" copyright verbage from tops of .h and .m files. |
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Sorry, by "filing a task" I meant: "update this description to something like:
- update all file copyright statements
- add script (and/or makefile goal) to install our WMF file templates onto the user's machine"
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Yeah, this just seems like a code template(s) we never updated or customized. This is not tied to a release, so I'm not going to move it into a version board, but I did bump priority slightly as it seems like a basic find/replace and we really do not reserve all rights, nor do we want to :P
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You'll find that "All rights reserved" is common practice even in many open source projects.
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If it's ok if we just have *no* copyright headers that would be ideal :)
We could write a test that checks for these and fails to build until they're removed.
I have nothing against having whatever headers we need to use (although I'm partial to "Copyright (c) 2016 Wikimedia Foundation. Provided under MIT-style license; please copy and modify!"), but the main thing that would be nice is at least having consistency - presently some say "All rights reserved" and some are like the one I pasted and some files have no copyright headers...