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All the code files have this as a first line: // Copyright (c) 2011 The LevelDB Authors. All rights reserved. I wonder how come it's not copyrighted to Go
by cool-RR 15y ago
All the code files have this as a first line:
// Copyright (c) 2011 The LevelDB Authors. All rights reserved.
I wonder how come it's not copyrighted to Google.
- ivank 15y agoThat's what Google does when they set up a project that accepts contributions. Google Inc. is the author; see http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/source/browse/trunk/AUTHORS http://code.google.com/p/leveldb/source/browse/trunk/AUTHORS
- azsromej 15y agoThe initial version written by the authors of MapReduce and BigTable
- abarth 15y agoThe idea behind this approach is to simplify the maintenance of the copyright line and to encourage collective ownership of the code. I'm told that some open-source projects have conflicts about who's name appears in which files, but I've not experienced that first-hand.