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[Alberto Barrionuevo <abarrio@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/01/15 17:01, Ovnicraft wrote:
> Here we can do it better, there are some guides about this:
>
> # -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
>
>
> __author__=  "Full Name(email)"
> __copyright__=  "Copyright (C) YEAR FULL NAME"
> __license__=  "AGPL 3.0"
> __version__=  "1.0"
>
> So in pythonic way we must add LICENSE file in each module,
> and as best practice AUTHORS.txt and add Full Name (email) as list as make contributions.

I back this proposal.

No matter if it is possible to find authors by repositories, copyright 
and license information should be within the source code files. Take in 
care that open source files can be distributed out of repositories and 
this makes really difficult to locate author(s) and license(s).

For example, it is quite common that code from other developers, 
installed on our customers systems, come to our company to work with. 
And many times it is really difficult to discover who are the actual 
authors, the actual license(s) (when not in Odoo) and the actual 
copyright date(s).

Sometimes we discover that info only after searching for parts of that 
code on Google et al., but many other times it is impossible to know 
with enough precision, and, legally speaking, we would be forced to 
replace all that code. This last situation may mean a huge problem and 
unnecessary effort.

Indeed, many times we discover that somebody has taken over and 
re-licensed/copyrighted the code of original authors who didn't include 
their copyright information within their files. Who is morally guilty in 
such a case?

Just my 2 cents,
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