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Re: Backports and license

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AlphaPet Ventures Financing GmbH, Markus Schneider
- 26/06/2015 09:59:17 
I remember that we start this discussion already and find no conclusion.

For my feeling the spdx seems a way to go. As it address this problem.
But i have not enough knowledge on that. Someone investigate some time
on that?

On 25.06.2015 08:37, Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org wrote:
> I don't think that's the case for Odoo, because it's not a common
> practice to take just one file of the module, but the whole one.
> Anyways, the chance of having an incorrect copyright header is very
> high, because contributors don't maintain them correctly (because it's
> very tedious and error prone). So I prefer to have an easy and
> centralized convention that makes people to follow it correctly that one
> with benefits in a theoretical split of the code, but that it's going to
> be incorrect in most cases.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 2015-06-24 23:08 GMT+02:00 Ronald Portier <ronald@therp.nl
> <mailto:ronald@therp.nl>>:
> 
>     Hello, In the past I also was in favor of one centralized license /
>     copyright file. However I have been convinced by post as the
>     following, that is really is better to have them in each source
>     file:
>     http://lu.is/blog/2012/03/17/on-the-importance-of-per-file-license-information/
>     Not going to repeat everything stated in this (and other) posts, but
>     the main point is that open source is about free re-use. So
>     different files can become separated from the original project all
>     the time (and that is a good thing!). For the community modules it
>     is also the case that while generally they will be all AGPL, the
>     copyright of each file might be different, because many contributors
>     will keep their own copyright (beside granting the OCA a copyright
>     through the CLA). I am also not a lawyer, but this is what I am
>     thinking. Kind regards, Ronald Op 24-06-15 om 21:38 schreef
>     Alejandro Santana: > It has been discussed before, even proposing
>     some new (pseudo?) > standards, but no common direction was
>     stablished. > > I am also in favor of minimum header in files, just
>     pointing to > __openerp__.py file for all info. > Having all
>     authoring info in each file (and maybe with different >
>     collaborators in each one) makes it much more difficult to see
>     actual > authorship. > > Just my 2 cents. > > > > -- > *Alejandro
>     Santana* > alejandrosantana@anubia.es
>     <mailto:alejandrosantana@anubia.es>
>     <mailto:alejandrosantana@anubia.es
>     <mailto:alejandrosantana@anubia.es>> > · · · · · · · · · · · · · · ·
>     · · · · · · · · · · · · · · > > ANUBÍA, soluciones en la nube, S.L.
>     > > Colón 26, planta 3, oficina 1 > 36201, Vigo (Pontevedra) > >
>     www.anubia.es  > > >
>     anubía_logo_2014_i_o_140x140.pngodoo_logo_odoo_ready_140x140.png > >
>     > > > 2015-06-24 21:22 GMT+02:00 Pedro Manuel Baeza Romero > : > >
>     Well, I don't think a bloated header on each file is needed. Only >
>     __openerp__.py header contains all the copyright information, and >
>     git makes the rest. > > Regards. > > 2015-06-24 20:23 GMT+02:00
>     Markus Schneider > : > > Hi Pedro, thanks a lot. So to summaries
>     this, for the next case: > - make sure keep original git history -
>     adding proper license > header to all files with original author
>     something else? Kind > Regards Markus On 24.06.2015 17:07,
>     Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org> >
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org>> wrote: > In this case, > they
>     didn't do it due to a lack of knowledge on how to do > it. > I will
>     teach then and redo the PR. > > Regards. > > 2015-06-23 > 12:08
>     GMT+02:00 Alexandre Fayolle > > <alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com> >
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com>> > >
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com> >
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com
>     <mailto:alexandre.fayolle@camptocamp.com>>>>: > > > The PR >
>     completely removed history, contributors' names... :-( > > > > > On
>     23/06/2015 11:52, Joël Grand-Guillaume wrote: > > >
>     cite="mid:CACk3wO+Z17OeNgFrFe=3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com> >
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com>> > >
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com> >
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com
>     <mailto:3q7HMti2if9Bk3yJGQE3xk8Fhxj32Cg@mail.gmail.com>>>" >
>     type="cite"> > +1 > > the license is still AGPL : > >
>     https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/master/LICENSE > > On Tue, > Jun
>     23, 2015 at 9:38 AM, <Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org> >
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org>> > >
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org> >
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org
>     <mailto:Pedro@pad.odoo-community.org>>>> wrote: > > Hi, > Markus, >
>     > I have already done backports and I have kept > the headers of the
>     > files as is. In this case, the original > code is also without >
>     headers: for example, > >
>     https://github.com/odoo/odoo/blob/master/addons/website_slides/models/res_config.py
> 
>     >             , > and about license, it is yet in the odoo repositories
>     >             without > LGPL statement, so it can be assumed that it's
>     >             AGPL. > > Regards. > > 2015-06-22 21:53 GMT+02:00 Markus
>     >             Schneider > : > > hi OCA, > >
>     >             https://github.com/OCA/website/pull/44
>     >             > > is a backport of website_slides but their is no license
>     >             information. > I would ask (maybe it is documented
>     >             somewhere), do we accepted > backports? How we document of
>     >             the initial version take with source? > > Kind Regards > >
>     >             Markus > OCA/website maintainer > >
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