[coreboot] Different Google copyright notices: »The Chromium OS Authors. ?«

[Hung-Te Lin]

On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Paul Menzel <
paulepanter at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2013, 01:06 +0100 schrieb Peter Stuge:
> > ron minnich wrote:
> > > > In the community we can of course not know what is correct when,
> > >
> > > ah yes well I do kind of wonder if *I* know what I'm doing half the
> > > time :-)
> >
> > I guess the concern was that perhaps there was a single correct
> > notice to be used, and that some of you guys made a mistake
> > somewhere. I don't expect that you make such mistakes, but I
> > guess that's what Paul meant.
>
> Well, thanks to Hung-Te’s clarifying answer, at least the inconsistent
> spelling of »The Chromium*OS Authors.« with or without space shows that
> a mistake indeed was made while copying.
>

    Oops, I won't call that a "mistake by copy". Just like Ron said,
copyright and policy changes.
    I only verified "latest one is 'Chromium OS Authors'" for chromium.org.
    Maybe it was without space, lower case c, ... etc for some time (or
maybe there was not a standard long time ago).

    That's why I only changed "my new changes on gerrit" (i.e., those not
merged yet) instead of changing all files related to chromium.org, because
I can only make sure those were made by taking copyright string from old
files.


> Also I assume, that the inconsistency in adding »All rights reserved.«
> or having the copyright sign spelled with a capitalized »(C)« or not
> »(c)« is a mistake (and not a policy decision).
>
> So to keep the differences between files small, it would be awesome if
> some Google/Chromium OS developer could unify that and set up some
> pre-commit hook checking that with each commit.
>

    For same reason, for new commits we can be more careful to use latest
correct copyright string, but it seems no harm to keep old files as-is.
What do you think?

Regards,
Hung-Te
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