[Nfd-dev] Copyright holder section of license boilerplate

[Junxiao Shi]

Dear folks

During the review of NFD Task 2352, a question was raised about copyright
holder in license boilerplates.

My opinion is that every file must carry the same license boilerplate,
regardless of contributor. The benefit is that the whole NFD repository is
owned by a single set of copyright holders (the seven institutions), so
that relicensing is easy.

Alex's opinion is that one people from "NDN team" (which itself is an
undefined concept) needs to use a standard license boilerplate of seven
institutions as copyright holders, while other contributors can declare
different copyright holders without assigning copyright to the seven
institutions, but still get code merged into NFD repository. I think this
approach would cause difficulty in relicensing NFD code.

A policy decision on this problem is needed before #2352 can continue.

Yours, Junxiao
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