On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 06:23:20PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Trent W. Buck writes: > > AIUI copyright declarations are a convenience to users (of the work); > > it lets them know who they need to contact to get a license for > > <whatever> -- for example, an openssl exception. > > That's exactly right. Since Darcs is free software, you can hope that > snippets of Darcs code will be used by other projects where > appropriate. If you're reasonably careful about making sure > contributors who haven't assigned their code are acknowledged in a > copyright notice, you'll save everybody who's careful a lot of work. > > Looking-back-at-a-decade-of-carelessness-and-not-happy-about-it-ly y'rs,
Except, of course, that as Trent mentioned, the copyright statements *don't* let users know who they need to contact for a license exception for their code. So unless they are scrupulously maintained, they're deceptive. David _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
