[Phpmyadmin-devel] license for error reporting server

Mon Aug 26 13:36:47 CEST 2013

they are generated from the database schema. The plugin compares the
current database schema with what is on file and genrates a database
migration for the difference and updates the schema on file. this
allows developers to share changes to the schema in the repo

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Dieter Adriaenssens
<dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2013/8/26 Mohamed Ashraf <mohamed.ashraf.213 at gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Dieter Adriaenssens
>> <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2013/8/19 Mohamed Ashraf <mohamed.ashraf.213 at gmail.com>:
>>>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:18 PM, Dieter Adriaenssens
>>>> <dieter.adriaenssens at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hi Mohamed,
>>>>>
>>>>> On the team meeting last week, we discussed the license under which
>>>>> the error reporting server will be published.
>>>>>
>>>>> Because it is based on cakePHP which is licensed under MIT 2.0, we
>>>>> decided to license our additions under MIT 2.0 as well. This way it
>>>>> will be easier to contribute any changes that might be useful for
>>>>> cakePHP upstream (if applicable).
>>>>>
>>>>> In order to keep track of who holds copyright on which files (cakePHP
>>>>> or phpMyAdmin), a copyright notice should be added to each file that
>>>>> was created for phpMyAdmin. For original cakePHP files that are
>>>>> modified, both copyright holders (cakePHP and phpMyAdmin) should be
>>>>> mentioned.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you do the necessary changes?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>>
>>>>> Dieter Adriaenssens
>>>>
>>>> Hi Dieter,
>>>>
>>>> so each and every file created should have a copyright notice. Does
>>>> that include generated files such as the schema or the migrations?
>>>
>>> I would say yes.
>>> If they are generated by a script, you can probably modify  this
>>> script to add the copyright notice to it.
>> The script is in either a cakephp file or a plugin file. I do not own
>> them. which would create two problems first should I also add our
>> copyrighted notice to these files as well. and the other thing is that
>> prevents us from updating cakephp or the plugins in the future since
>> we have changed their files or we would have to do the changes to
>> every update.
>>
>> I recommend that we ignore generated files. I do not know what is the
>> use of copyrighting a generated file. we didn't create it. we ran a
>> command and it was created for us by the code that someone else wrote.
>> if anything they should own the copyright not us.
>
> OK, it makes sense to ignore the generated files.
>
> What are they generated from?
>
>>>
>>>> Also I would need the actual script you want to be included at the top
>>>> of the file be it ours or has joint authors.
>>>
>>> In case it is only us, use the same docblock as the one for the
>>> cakePHP files, but replace all cakePHP stuff with phpMyAdmin.
>>>
>>> fe.
>>>
>>> /**
>>>  * phpMyAdmin Error reporting server
>>>  * Copyright (c) phpMyAdmin project (http://www.phpmyadmin.net)
>>>  *
>>>  * Licensed under The MIT License
>>>  * For full copyright and license information, please see the LICENSE.txt
>>>  * Redistributions of files must retain the above copyright notice.
>>>  *
>>>  * @copyright     Copyright (c) phpMyAdmin project (http://www.phpmyadmin.net)
>>>  * @link            http://www.phpmyadmin.net
>>>  * @license       http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php MIT License
>>>  */
>>>
>>> (remove the since and package, because our fiels were not released as
>>> part of cakePHP)
>>>
>>> In case of modifications to a cakePHP file, add a copyright line for
>>> phpMyAdmin and the following notice :
>>>
>>> This file was originally released by cakePHP and modified by
>>> phpMyAdmin. You can check the commit log for changes to this file.
>>>
>>>> I am also assuming that this is a low priority task and would be done
>>>> in my down time since I donot think this is time sensitive. Once you
>>>> give me the actual copyright notice to include I will start adding
>>>> them to the necessary files as I go.
>>>>
>>>> Also files that are created by Cakephp already have a copyright notice
>>>> should I remove it and replace it with ours that has both authors or
>>>> should I modify their copyright notice or should I place our copyright
>>>> notice after theirs.
>>>
>>> See above.
>>>
>>>> Furthermore as for the issue of empty but copyrighted files I have
>>>> here the original app controller file as supplied by cakephp [0] and
>>>> here the current state of the file [1]. should this file still be
>>>> under joint copyright. I think this is the only one which has changed
>>>> so radically but there are others that are empty but copyrighted
>>>> however I havent changed them yet
>>>
>>> If you didn't change them, leave them as they are.
>>> I would say that a file with only a class definition can hardly be
>>> considered as copyrightable material, so I'm inclined to say to
>>> replace the copyright notice with ours. But it doesn't hurt to just
>>> add our copyright and the notice I mentioned above.
>>>
>>>> [0] https://github.com/cakephp/cakephp/blob/master/app/Controller/AppController.php
>>>> [1] https://github.com/phpmyadmin/error-reporting-server/blob/master/app/Controller/AppController.php
>>>>
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>> Dieter Adriaenssens
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>>
>>
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>
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