[PATCH www] CONTRIBUTING: ask people to add copyright headers
I want to make sure we're collecting copyright information right from the start, because it's much easier to keep track of this as content is created, rather than try to piece it together after the fact should we ever need to. --- CONTRIBUTING | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING index b2941cf..6cbc106 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING +++ b/CONTRIBUTING @@ -17,6 +17,14 @@ self-close?), and CSS to a minimum. We want to optimise for the website being as nice as possible to navigate in a text editor, to encourage people to edit and improve the website. +For any changes that are likely to be copyrightable (i.e. those that +involve any amount of creative input from you), please add an +SPDX-FileCopyrightText header to the file so we can keep track of +copyright holders. Every file should already have at least one +example of these that you can use as a template. If you'd rather not +list your email address in the copyright notice, it's fine to omit +that. + Please send patches to devel@spectrum-os.org. Instructions for how to do this are provided in the contributing.html file. -- 2.27.0
On Tue Aug 11, 2020 at 7:04 AM PDT, Alyssa Ross wrote:
I want to make sure we're collecting copyright information right from the start, because it's much easier to keep track of this as content is created, rather than try to piece it together after the fact should we ever need to.
+1, and it's also nice to see individuals being attributed, rather than "Spectrum Contributors," as many other projects have turned to (not that this is any less valid -- it's just nice to see your name called out somewhere).
--- CONTRIBUTING | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
Overall SGTM. However, I don't think I'll refer to the contributing
document everytime I post a patch, so I hope you'll gently remind
me/people as they post patches (or offer to do it yourself, as you did
in the recent Matrix instructions patch).
Reviewed-by: Cole Helbling
"Cole Helbling"
On Tue Aug 11, 2020 at 7:04 AM PDT, Alyssa Ross wrote:
I want to make sure we're collecting copyright information right from the start, because it's much easier to keep track of this as content is created, rather than try to piece it together after the fact should we ever need to.
+1, and it's also nice to see individuals being attributed, rather than "Spectrum Contributors," as many other projects have turned to (not that this is any less valid -- it's just nice to see your name called out somewhere).
IKR!
--- CONTRIBUTING | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
Overall SGTM. However, I don't think I'll refer to the contributing document everytime I post a patch, so I hope you'll gently remind me/people as they post patches (or offer to do it yourself, as you did in the recent Matrix instructions patch).
Yeah, of course! I think in general it's often way easier for a maintainer to fix up a patch and apply it themselves, and maintainers should do that more often.
Reviewed-by: Cole Helbling
Thanks for the review. Applied as 9e1415ed1ad0bc6e1071d988c73dd0fdc8b4e894.
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