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<p>Last updated September 8th, 2004</p> | |
<p>With the Eclipse Foundation transitioning from the CPL to the EPL (for further information | |
see the <a href="CPL2EPLTransitionPlan.pdf">CPL to EPL Transition Plan</a> (.pdf) and matching <a href="cpl2eplfaq.html">FAQ</a>), | |
the default license for a project will either be the CPL or the EPL. For CPL projects, the notice template is: | |
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* Copyright (c) {DATE} {INITIAL COPYRIGHT OWNER} {OTHER COPYRIGHT OWNERS}.<br> | |
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials<br> | |
* are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0<br> | |
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at<br> | |
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html<br> | |
*<br> | |
* Contributors:<br> | |
* {INITIAL AUTHOR} - initial API and implementation<br> | |
*******************************************************************************/ | |
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<p>For EPL projects, the notice template is:</p> | |
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/*******************************************************************************<br> | |
* Copyright (c) {DATE} {INITIAL COPYRIGHT OWNER} {OTHER COPYRIGHT OWNERS}.<br> | |
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials<br> | |
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0<br> | |
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at<br> | |
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html<br> | |
*<br> | |
* Contributors:<br> | |
* {INITIAL AUTHOR} - initial API and implementation<br> | |
*******************************************************************************/ | |
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<p>NOTE: While the CPL to EPL Transition Plan is in effect, do NOT use the EPL notice unless you know for certain that your project | |
has transitioned fully to the EPL.</p> | |
<p>If the contents of the file are to be governed by another license, different text will be required. | |
Contact the relevant PMC for assistance with this.</p> | |
<p><strong>{DATE}</strong> is either a year or a range of years with the first and last years | |
of the range separated by a comma. So for example: "2004" or "2000, 2004". | |
The first year is when the contents of the file were first created and the last year is the last | |
year is when the contents were last modified.</p> | |
<p><strong>{INITIAL COPYRIGHT OWNER}</strong> is the copyright owner that created the initial content. | |
If the content is subsequently modified and appended to by other copyright owners, the words | |
"and others" are typically appended. So for example: "XYZ Corp." or "XYZ Corp. and others". | |
The words "and others" are used to avoid having to list every copyright owner and because often, | |
most of the content in the file was contributed the by initial copyright owner with subsequent modifications by others | |
being smaller. However especially if the number of copyright owners is small (e.g. two), there is nothing wrong with | |
listing all of them especially if their contributions are more proportionately equal. For example: | |
"XYZ Corp., John Smith, and ABC Enterprises."</p> | |
<p>NOTE: Do not confuse copyright owners with authors (which is explained below). A copyright owner may be either | |
an individual or an entity. If a person is making their contributions on behalf of their employer, then the copyright | |
owner is usually the employer (i.e. "XYZ Corp." and not "John Smith").</p> | |
<p><strong>{INITIAL AUTHOR}</strong> is the name of the person that wrote the initial content. Subsequent authors | |
are listed on proceding lines with a short description of the contribution. If there is an associated Bugzilla report | |
number, then it is good practice to include it here. Over time, this section actually | |
becomes a log of the contributions. Although it could become quite lengthy in some cases, it should be maintained for | |
two important reasons - to acknowledge the contributions of individuals (especially when their contribution is | |
owned by their employer), and to assist with tracking the pedigree of the code (who wrote what). It is good practice to | |
list the name of the author with their employer if the latter owns the copyright. For example: "John Smith (XYZ Corp.)".</p> | |
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