cgeo
Clarify file header: copyright, author
In WhereYouGo are currently on most source files header with a license information and partly a author information. In c:geo is this not realized.
We should dicuss and define a standard procedure for the future.
This is a open discussion.
In old files in WhereYouGo - see e.g. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cgeo/WhereYouGo/master/src/main/java/menion/android/whereyougo/geo/orientation/IOrientationEventListener.java - is a GPL disclaimer and an author tag.
Current point for starting this discussion is PR #40 with an new file, see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cgeo/WhereYouGo/c2856f7dbce45c2f9a9e5bb80e4b350524c963b2/src/main/java/menion/android/whereyougo/network/activity/OpenLocalActivity.java
For me - I can live well with the way it is currently handled in c:geo. I would propose not to include this parts.
Maybe there was such a discussion in c:geo before?
I remember this non resolved issue: https://github.com/cgeo/cgeo/issues/749
Is there any common practice defined for the different licenses?
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License in general
see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html for source code recommendation
These licenses are based on the Copyright that you have to claim explicitly in some countries (e.g. USA). We don't have a CLA, so if we want to do any legal stuff, we have to ask anyone who has contributed to the file for their permission or support.
I'm not a legal expert, so I can't really make any suggestions. But I think we should
- be careful to not remove an explicit copyright line
- use/adopt a CLA
- require all future contributors to accept the CLA
- try to ask a legal expert
- not think about this because we don't have the resources to enforce copyright/license violations in court anyway