[Koha-bugs] [Bug 4330] Copyright statements out of date

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http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=4330

--- Comment #1 from Lars Wirzenius <lars at catalyst.net.nz>  ---
Some further thoughts on this topic.

The goal:

* Every source file is clearly labelled with the correct copyright ownership
  and license information.
* "make test" or some other tool makes sure all files continue to have
  copyright and license information.
* The RM will reject patches in the future unless they make the necessary
  updates to each modified file.

Some thoughts:

* Getting this up to date and keeping it there is generally good, in case
  there are ever copyright disputes.
* Also good for getting Koha accepted as a package in Debian.
* Chris tells me all copyright info should be possible to pull from git.
  This will allow extraction of who edited. With only about 100 committers,
  some manual work to determine copyright owner for each committer should
  be completely feasible, even when some people (like Chris) have worked
  for different companies over the years.
  - write a little tool to data mine git for authors and the time spans
    they have worked in
* The exact same license statement should be used everywhere. Ideally, it
  would be exactly the same as in the GPL boilerplate.
* Debian ftpmaster advice on this topic:
  - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/12/msg00007.html
  - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00023.html

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