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0 pointspalata1y ago0 comments

People here keep saying that they removed copyright headers. I can't find a single copyright header in the Spegel source files. Can someone help me find which headers Microsoft actually removed?

What I see is that Microsoft added headers to their Peerd files. Now they read "Copyright Microsoft", which is correct because Microsoft owns some copyright over those modified files. If those files had had a "Copyright Spegel project" before, Microsoft should have kept it and added their own. But those files did not contain such a header as far as I can see.

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ptx1y ago

It's in the license file: https://github.com/spegel-org/spegel/commits/main/LICENSE

palataOP1y ago

Right. So Microsoft should just have a copy of this LICENSE file somewhere? Can't we just open a PR to add it to the repo? Did the author do that and did Microsoft decline the PR?

Feels like Microsoft was not necessarily trying to steal work (they link the original project in their README).

johnisgood1y ago

I think as a bare minimum, they should have kept the original LICENSE, and add theirs on top or something.

Conan_Kudo1y ago

It needs to be present in the headers of each file that they took from. Attribution matters and in mixed projects you need that clarification at the file level.

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