[dev] Copyright questions

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi!

I was wondering a bit about the way we mention copyright in our code.

We do have copyright notices in most of our files, sometimes PHP  
doclinks as well. and some packages (the applications) offer  
COPYING/LICENSE.

The copyright statement in the code files usually mention the  
COPYING/LICENSE file that should come with the package. For the  
framework components its is usually not present though.

And I don't even know if having such copyright statements in the code  
is actually needed. I once read that the COPYING/LICENSE file in a  
package would be enough. The maintenance effort of having maybe only  
two or three links to copyright information would be much lower.

So I wonder a bit if we can improve the situation. It is at least  
somewhat confusing to me at the moment and if possible I would like to  
get it simpler. Does anybody know what requirements we actually  
see/have in that area? I'm willing to invest a bit of time to find out  
what kind of legal requirements exist but maybe somebody already knows.

Cheers,

Gunnar


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