[TYPO3-core] Copyright-year in headers

[Ernesto Baschny]

Hi,

after some digging around, here are my thoughts:

Pointing to our "LICENSE.txt" file for "copyright and licensing"
information is misleading. Our LICENSE.txt file needs updates if we do
that. Currently it states the whole core is copyrighted by "Kasper
2003-2009".

In fact we should be pointing to the GPL.txt file (or to the webpage)
just like proposed by GPL [1]:

	"You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program.  If not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>."

I am not sure why the Flow team dropped this phrase, maybe the GPL is
already so well known that this pointer is considered obsolete? If this
is legally okey, I would also opt for #8, which just drops this referral.

If we go with #9, we must make sure that we don't point to our
"LICENSE.txt" file but use the standard GPL phrase mentioned above ("you
should have received...").

In any case, we must make sure that we don't change the license - i.e.
point to "version 2 or later" (instead of "version 3 or later"), so it
still has this slight difference from the Flow headers.

Cheers,
Ernesto

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html


Fabien Udriot schrieb am 14.05.2014 15:31:
> Short question, is it decided for version #9 [1] already?. There would
> be also #8 as a candidate. This would make it even shorter and have the
> advantage to be closer to the Flow / Neos copyright header. By copy /
> pasting code, there would be only the license number that changes!
> 
> One more thing, in the PDF we have:
> 
> -> * This file is part of the TYPO3 project.
> 
> Could we have TYPO3 CMS?
> 
> -> * This file is part of the TYPO3 CMS project.
> 
> Fabien
> 
> [1]
> http://forge.typo3.org/attachments/26213/TYPO3_Copyright_Headers_v20140307_1_.pdf
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> On 14 May 2014, at 15:19, Stefan Neufeind wrote:
> 
>     On 05/14/2014 03:13 PM, Ernesto Baschny wrote:
> 
>         Oliver Hader schrieb am 13.05.2014 15:53:
> 
>             Hi everybody,
> 
>             Am 12.05.14 15:13, schrieb Benjamin Mack:
> 
>                 Hey Michael,
> 
>                 thanks for pushing. I sent an info to the licensing team.
> 
>                 http://forge.typo3.org/issues/56776
> 
>                 If they won't respond in the next 7 days, let's go with
>                 version 9.
> 
>             There's a response now:
>             http://forge.typo3.org/issues/56776#note-4
> 
>               * GPL2 or any later version in the license header
>               * No file author, or year in the license header
>               * Full LICENSE file in the distribution
> 
>             I'm fine with that as well - especially the file author in
>             source files,
>             since that sometimes lead to confusion...
> 
>         +1
> 
>     So who can provide the needed mass-update-patch and imho merge it
>     shortly then before it might break again?
> 
>     Kind regards,
>     Stefan
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