Copyright Uniformity

[ddavison]

Every other file has a different copyright heading. Everything from

Copyright 2007 - 2011 Software Freedom Conservancy

to

Copyright 2012 Selenium Committers

This issue should be dedicated to uniting all copyrights in each file. To do all of this, will be a time-consuming and daunting task, but should be done.

The issue could also be discussed as a forum for what the full-text of the copyright should be.

Consider it an Epic issue, and any PR's solely regarding documentation cleanup should be referred here.

In the future, expect PR's from me cleaning this up.

[I-cleanup?]

[ddavison]

I remember talking about this in a previous pull request or issue, but i can't find it. the license for the project is obviously Apache v2, but who does the copyright go to? IIRC, it should really be:

Software Freedom Conservancy

[andreastt]

We discussed this on IRC a few weeks back and CONTRIBUTING explains how copyright and attribution should work.

Every file should contain the follow header boilerplate, without year or copyright notice:

Licensed to the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) under one
or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
distributed with this work for additional information
regarding copyright ownership.  The SFC licenses this file
to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
software distributed under the License is distributed on an
"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
specific language governing permissions and limitations
under the License.

The NOTICE file should contain the copyright assignment and year, and the LICENSE file should contain the Apache 2 license.

This follows the Apache Foundation's recommendations for licensing.

It's positively pointless busywork to update every file however. We can update each file as it's changed.

[andreastt]

Closed by 6b4e6de.

[jleyba]

Can't close yet. Still need rb/, cpp/, dotnet/ and a few others

[andreastt]

Oops, sorry about that!

[titusfortner]

Want help doing the ruby ones? I can go through them today.

[andreastt]

@titusfortner: If you can add an automated way to update the license headers for .rb files, please senda PR! See the commit that jleyba made for inspiration.

Please note that you must manually verify that every file you end up changing doesn't violate the file's existing license, e.g. if it's licensed under a different license or belongs to a different organisation than Software Freedom Conservancy.

[titusfortner]

In the method requested, here's the pull request: #416

[ddavison]

I believe we are all copacetic here so far. closing.