[fedora-websites] Issue #1078: Copyright Year on Website Pages!

[Ardit Dani]

ard1t reported a new issue against the project: `fedora-websites` that you are following:
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© 2020 Red Hat, Inc. and others.


<!!image>

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[Michael S]

misc added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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After discussing with folks from RH Legal team a few weeks ago, about the use of copyright
notice in source code, they pointed me to
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-...
(and to internal RH doc), and how the copyright notice tend to be misused, and there is
others way to assert copyright nowadays (and methods who are less onerous to maintain).

I will send them a message to see if there is maybe a easier way for the websites, or what
they recommend.
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[Richard Fontana]

richardfontana added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Hi, Red Hat Legal person here. So a couple of things. One, many many years ago I proposed
that Fedora cease using "Red Hat, Inc. and others" in its website copyright
notice; I'm pretty sure I submitted a ticket on that issue. This practice was famously
criticized by Bradley Kuhn in a [blog
post](http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/28/gilligans-island.html). I don't know what I
suggested in 2011 but 'Copyright Fedora Project Contributors' or the like would be
a possibility. There's no point in giving Red Hat special status and no point in
lumping everyone else as an "other" (which now unfortunately makes me think of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hanging_Stranger). 

The other thing, and I guess what ard1t was focused on in submitting this ticket, is that
you don't need to keep track of years in a website footer copyright notice for the
reasons given by Steve Winslow in the Linux Foundation article misc linked to.

It is still somewhat useful to have something that looks like a copyright notice at all,
for the reason that people expect it to be there. So I'd change it to "Copyright
Fedora Project Contributors" or something along those lines.
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[Matthew Miller]

mattdm added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Thank you @richardfontana. I'd definitely prefer "Fedora Project
Contributors" for exactly those reasons.
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[Farwa Batool]

farwa.batool added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Hello! Can i be assigned to this?
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[Francois Andrieu]

darknao added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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Yes, sure!
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[Francois Andrieu]

The issue: `Copyright Year on Website Pages!` of project: `fedora-websites` has been
assigned to `farwa.batool` by darknao.

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[Francois Andrieu]

darknao added a new comment to an issue you are following:
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The updated footer text should be:
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Copyright &copy; Copyright Fedora Project Contributors. Licensed under <a
href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode"... BY-SA
4.0</a> except where noted.
``` 
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[Francois Andrieu]

The issue: `Copyright Year on Website Pages!` of project: `fedora-websites` has been reset
by darknao.

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