Project metadata

[taublast]

I'd like to raise a concern about the current metadata.
Actually we have the following:

<Authors>Microsoft</Authors>
<Owners>Microsoft</Owners>
<Copyright>© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</Copyright>

Given the MIT License context in reality we have a shared copyright with contributors, the metadata seems inconsistent with the nature of the project.
Should we adjust this?

[rokmeglic71]

@taublast where did you find this? In a sample project, I can not find this text.

[taublast]

Maui/src/CommunityToolkit.Maui/CommunityToolkit.Maui.csproj

Line 37 in 49a1241

<Copyright>© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.</Copyright>

[pictos]

Given the MIT License context in reality we have a shared copyright with contributors, the metadata seems inconsistent with the nature of the project.

@taublast, what do you find inconsistent?

[rokmeglic71]

@pictos maybe this:

[pictos]

We follow the same license as the other CommunityToolkit packages, but unfortunately, I don't have more details about it. Perhaps @Sergio0694 or @michael-hawker might have additional information?

[taublast]

@pictos When i first downloaded the nuget I found it wierd to read "All rights reserved" clamed by one single company as I beleive MIT contrubutors hold some rights too.

[pictos]

I believe that All rights reserved are for .NET Foundation and not MS, but I don't know too much about that. I pinged other toolkit maintainers, in another thread, that may help

[taublast]

@pictos Normally if there was <Copyright>© Microsoft Corporation</Copyright>. it could be read like "okay with MIT on top there are contributors too, it's not excluding them". And with "All rights reserved" on top we read "all rights go to MSFT excluding everyone else" which might even be legally impossible in MIT context. In other words with MIT all rights cannot be reserved, this string clearly came here from differently licenced MSFT projects.