Provenance spreadsheet...

[Steve Lime]

I can't think of any reason why not.

Steve

>>> On 6/15/2007 at 2:18 PM, in message <4672E5F9.1090307 at dmsolutions.ca>,
Yewondwossen Assefa <assefa at DMSOLUTIONS.CA> wrote:
> Sorry for missing the IRC. I just read through the discussions.
> I did update this morning all the headers of the files that were mostly 
> done by DMSG/Mapgears.  I also updated the speard sheet to reflect the 
> changes.
>   There were few files mainly either FW or UMN licensed which has the 
> same  copyright header issue described by Julien. I have them modified 
> but would like to know if I can commit them:
> 
> classobject.c
> layerobject.c
> mapgdal.c(18):
> mapgraticule.c(21):
> mapio.c(18):
> mapio.h(19):
> mapobject.c(19):
> mapoutput.c(18):
> mapraster.c(20):
> mapresample.h(19):
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Julien-Samuel Lacroix wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Seeing the spreadsheet raised some questions that I think need a consensus.
>> 
>> I think we agreed on a standard header, but is it somewhere in the wiki? 
>> Also, files added by me, Assefa and Daniel, have the MS/MIT license 
>> except for that line:
>> 
>> DM license:
>>  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
>>  * in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
>> 
>> MS license:
>>  * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be 
>> included in
>>  * all copies of this Software or works derived from this Software.
>> 
>> Is it critical? What should we do?
>> 
>> 
>> Since don't seem to be able to modify the spreadsheet myself here a some 
>> addition:
>> I (JSL) was, with Assefa (YA), the primary contributor of mapcontext.c. 
>> Zak James (ZJ) was the primary contributor of mappdf.c and I think Sacha 
>> Fournier (SF) contribute the first version of maptemplate.c (I may be 
>> wrong with that one) for the HTML legend, but he's gone since 2004. The 
>> header in maptemplate.c does not refer to him probably because the 
>> header was added by Frank when he added a header to all files.
>> 
>> What should we do with people that are gone?
>> 
>> That makes DM Solutions Group the copyright holder of all files 
>> contributed by me Assefa and Daniel I guess.
>> 
>> My last question is about the Copyright years. Most files have a year of 
>>   creation and try to have the year of the last update, but it's not 
>> up-to-date. Daniel used to update all the files on the first days of 
>> January, but it's not systematic. Should it be?
>> 
>> Julien
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Steve Lime wrote:
>>> Hi all: In case anyone is interested the provenance tracking 
>>> spreadsheet can be viewed at:
>>>
>>>   http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=p3ovxbvq1mBuBRaJiIT14eA 
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
>> 
>