Seeking input from developers: glibc copyright assignment policy.

[Florian Weimer]

* Paul Eggert:

> Following up on this, I propose that if DCO'ed contributions are
> accepted for a file, the file should contain a proper copyright notice 
> listing the authors and the range of years that each
> contributed. E.g., the start of the file would look like this:
>
>   /* Word-wrapping and line-truncating streams.
>      Copyright (C) 1997-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>      Copyright (C) 2021-2022 Alejandro Davis.
>      Copyright (C) 2022 Sharon Carter, Debra Lindsey.
>      This file is part of the GNU C Library.
>
>      The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it ...
>
> This issue shouldn't arise for Glibc files shared with Gnulib, as
> they'll still follow the current policy.

I would prefer something along the lines “Copyright The glibc
Contributors”.  No year or year range, no individual names.  Listing
years is apparently not legally required, and naming individual authors
is also optional.  See:

  Copyright Notices in Open Source Software Projects 
  <https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/blog/copyright-notices-in-open-source-software-projects/>

Today, we have some trouble removing “Contributed by” lines in cases
where they may be no longer applicable.  I don't think we should create
more problems like that.

Thanks,
Florian