[Python-Dev] Copyright notices in modules (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Wed Jan 21 01:45:36 CET 2009

2009/1/20 Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com>:

I'm at a loss of why the notice needs to be there at all.

There's a difference between contributing a whole file and contributing a patch. Patches do not require copyright notices. Whole files do. This is not affected by later edits to the file.

AFAICT, we've had tons of contributions from googlers and only one has put a Google copyright notice in the source.

I count 28 .py files with a Google copyright and 127 with other copyrights (not counting the 47 PSF copyrights :-). Why are you picking on Google?

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