At 12:02 04.12.2002 +0100, Stefan Mainz wrote:
Ceki G�lc� wrote:
I do not understand what Roy means by "the scope of what was covered
beyond 'this file'" Copyright law only protects the expression of an
idea, so I am baffled by what is meant by the scope beyond the file,
that is the written expression of the software developer. How can
copyright law apply to anything beyond the file?
Propably i am not the right person to answer this (not being a lawyer), but:
If you refer to a file which includes the license and the license says
_this file_ the license applies to the license file, not the onw which
referes to the file.
I am not sure I understand.
In our particular case, that is the Apache Software License version
1.1, the license talks about "this software" not about any specific
file.
Source: http://www.apache.org/LICENSE and
http://www.apache.org/foundation/licence-FAQ.html
The copyright notice + reference text we are talking about has the
form:
/*
* Copyright (C) The Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved.
*
* This software is published under the terms of the Apache Software License
* version 1.1, a copy of which has been included with this distribution in
* the LICENSE.txt file.
*/
How could the situation you mention arise in our case?
Stefan
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