Change Copyright header

[mkurz]

Right now:

• Copyright (C) Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>

Suggestion for new one:

• 2011-2021 Lightbend Inc., since 2022 the original author or authors from the Play Framework project

Actually @ihostage came up with the JHipster one in slack. So that is what JHipster uses:
https://github.com/jhipster/generator-jhipster/blob/9f8da38a6251416c9b700f35b9533b157d537b4d/cli/commands.js#L2-L5

 * Copyright 2013-2022 the original author or authors from the JHipster project.
 *
 * This file is part of the JHipster project, see https://www.jhipster.tech/
 * for more information.
 *

BTW: This is for source code, on the website they just use:

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Repo to update: :question:

• playframework
  Change copyright playframework#11494

• playframework.com

• interplay

• play-doc
  Change copyright play-doc#224

• play-ebean
  Update copyright play-ebean#365
  Sync headerEmptyLine setting with core repo play-ebean#367
  Add Copyright header into all files play-ebean#368

• play-file-watch
  Change copyright play-file-watch#239

• play-grpc

• play-json

• play-mailer

• play-samples

• play-slick

• play-soap

• play-socket.io

• play-webgoat

• play-ws

• anorm
  Add copyright anorm#526

• cachecontrol

• netty-reactive-streams

• omnidoc

• scalatestplus-play

• twirl
  Change copyright twirl#568

• play-java-seed.g8

• play-scala-seed.g8

• play-java-react-seed

• play-scala-react-seed

• play-java-angular-seed

• play-scala-angular-seed

• .github

• play-meta

• play-generated-docs

[octonato]

2011-2021 Lightbend Inc., since 2022 the original author or authors from the Play Framework project

I find this confusing.
I guess the intention is to say, starting from 2022 we consider Lightbend the "original author".

But that's not quite true. The original author is Guillaume.

I think we can just have

Copyright 2011-2021 (C) Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>

And then add an extra header starting from 2022.

[mkurz]

To finally finish this I suggest:

Copyright from 2022 (C) Contributors to the Play Framework project <https://github.com/playframework>
Copyright 2011-2021 (C) Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>

Taken from https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects

[mkurz]

UPD: content moved into first comment to see a progress on task board

[ihostage]

To finally finish this I suggest:

Copyright from 2022 (C) Contributors to the Play Framework project <https://github.com/playframework>
Copyright 2011-2021 (C) Lightbend Inc. <https://www.lightbend.com>

Taken from https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects

I agree. Although "Copyright (c) The Play Framework Contributors." looks shortly and is liked me more 😄

[mkurz]

liked me more

😉 I don't care. Actually I am fixing sbt-header right now because it is not working correctly.

[mkurz]

OK, I I was thinking again about this. Let's just do for the main branch

Copyright (C) The Play Framework Contributors <https://github.com/playframework>
// or
Copyright (C) Contributors to the Play Framework project <https://github.com/playframework>

So Lightbend will be dropped (they are contributors also so IMHO they are included in this phrase anyway). No year and the url at the end (using github since that were all other repos are and I want to use phrase for all repos)

[ihostage]

Contributors to the Play Framework project tells that all contributors have had a copyright for all project life.
But it's not a true, because until 2021 LB was an exclusive copyrighter 🤔
I'm not a lawyer and don't know how will be correct 🤷‍♂️

[mkurz]

The old copyright header is gone from every repo's main branch (I just checked). Repos that did/do have copyright headers use the new one now.
IMHO we can close this issue. We still can set up sbt-header in some repos if we find it useful (for some repos it is not necessary IMHO, e.g. play-samples or the see projects)

@ihostage if you think we should keep it open please let me know.

[ihostage]

I use this issue only to add sbt-header plugin into all repos. But I agree with you that subject "Change Copyright header" is done ✅
I think we can create a separate issue with description as this comment and close this.