License header for new files

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Hi there. When creating new files a license header is needed. The template currently available suggest this:

/*
 * Copyright Camunda Services GmbH and/or licensed to Camunda Services GmbH
 * under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
 * distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright
 * ownership. Camunda licenses this file to you under the Apache License,
 * Version 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

But for new files this looks odd. New code should not be licensed to Camunda!? I would rather place something like this:

/*
 * Copyright and/or licensed under one or more contributor license agreements.
 * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding
 * copyright ownership. This file is licensed to you under the Apache License,
 * Version 2.0; you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

What is the policy there?

2

Thanks for bringing this up. IMO the license header should attribute contributors of Operaton and the date of creation of the contributed file and besides that be the standard Apache 2.0 header.

My prososal is below. Definetely there must be a guideline, and we also have to enforce that this guideline is followed by contributions.

/*
 * Copyright 2024 the Operaton contributors.
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */