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Generally, copyright notices within source and documentation files fall out of date quickly. The contributor data is stored in gerrit or git and determining “copyright” requires an analysis that becomes quite complex after the initial commit. As such, for new files added to Hyperledger repositories, the following copyright text should be included:
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Copyright contributors to Hyperledger <project>. |
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For new files added to Hyperledger repositories, SPDX short identifiers are the recommended way of representing the license via comments within the header of the file. For Hyperledger, if using SPDX short identifiers, the following must be used to meet the requirements of the Hyperledger Charter:
Source Code
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SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 |
Documentation
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SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0 |
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