"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[email protected]> writes: > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Too often, though, such files are a set of license *terms* only > > (e.g. the text of the GPL), with no copyright status or explicit > > *grant* of license. That's not enough for Debian to know the > > rights of recipients: mere inclusion of license terms is not a > > grant of license under those terms. > > I don't agree. Only in journals you will find copyright notice and > author on every pages. Don't mean that there are copyright problem > on my favorite book, in inner pages. I think it the same for > sources. You could write the license (or a reference) on every file, > or you could write only a general file (e.g. COPYING), if it is > clear that the license cover all the files. This is true > particularly for small programs. On large programs or when there are > multiple licenses I recommend upstreams to put a copyright notice > and license for every important file (i.e. sources and non-trivial > header files).
Since this concurs with what I said, it seems we agree. I don't know who you're disagreeing with, but I'm glad we're of the same opinion. -- \ “When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to | `\ ask is if they ever press charges.” —Jack Handey | _o__) | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
