Update copyright, author, and version information for RTD

[sbenthall]

There are a number of fields in the Sphinx configuration that have to do with the copyright, authors, and version numbers of the software being documented.

https://github.com/econ-ark/HARK/blob/master/Documentation/conf.py#L70-L82

It looks like these are unchanged from their default values.
They should be changed to more appropriate values, and a procedure for updating them should be added to whatever instructions there are for the release process.

[sbenthall]

Current version 0.10.3

[sbenthall]

@llorracc @mnwhite @shaunagm

I can update this. But what should it say in the AUTHOR field?

[llorracc]

How about "Econ-ARK" as the author? Or, "Econ-ARK team"?

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[sbenthall]

Ok, I will change it to "Econ-ARK Team"

However, as this is used in the copyright notice, it may be that the real answer is more complicated than this.

As far as I know, there's no agreement for copyright assignment as part of contributing to HARK. So while implicitly everything put here is licensed under the same license, each code author maintains copyright ownership over what they wrote.

@shaunagm may correct me on this.

On some projects I've been on, there's been some paperwork to clear this up. In my experience, this is a bit of legal complexity that rarely matters in practice, but potentially could in the long future. It's probably easier to resolve sooner than later.

[llorracc]

Hmmm, I'm pretty sure that the terms of the Apache license are such that once someone has contributed something to the archive they do not retain any residual property rights over it. It is of course possible to hire people to do work beforehand, and to use stuff on which they retain licensed ownership (like, we are all the time using stuff from other open source tools). But I don't think there is an issue to clear up here; that's the point of being very specific about the license from the get-go.

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On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 10:43 PM Sebastian Benthall ***@***.***> wrote: Ok, I will change it to "Econ-ARK Team" However, as this is used in the copyright notice, it may be that the real answer is more complicated than this. As far as I know, there's no agreement for copyright assignment as part of contributing to HARK. So while implicitly everything put here is licensed under the same license, each code author maintains copyright ownership over what they wrote. @shaunagm <https://github.com/shaunagm> may correct me on this. On some projects I've been on, there's been some paperwork to clear this up. In my experience, this is a bit of legal complexity that rarely matters in practice, but potentially could in the long future. It's probably easier to resolve sooner than later. — You are receiving this because you were mentioned. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#474?email_source=notifications&email_token=AAKCK7Y64FKTLMJZDR3SEWDRBHORNA5CNFSM4KJFPFH2YY3PNVWWK3TUL52HS4DFVREXG43VMVBW63LNMVXHJKTDN5WW2ZLOORPWSZGOEKZJQ2Y#issuecomment-582129771>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAKCK77HOJUHY6PCHTYT2KLRBHORNANCNFSM4KJFPFHQ> .

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[MridulS]

IANAL
CLA (contributor license agreements) are usually used in the case of copyleft licenses like GPL or if the open source project is backed by a corporation (this is at least what I have seen in the wild).
With apache license and econ-ark project I highly doubt we should have a CLA.

[sbenthall]

I agree with both of you.

I think this Q/A is sensible:
https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/5585/benefits-of-a-cla-when-using-apache-2-0-license

Recollecting now, CLA's came up in earlier work because we were considering GPL licensing.