Mike Jervis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> However, I'm a little disconcerted to see that they have batch
> processed all source code and claimed copyright to all files, with a
> note that it's "based on" work from the original project which was
> copyright by {list of original authors}.
>
> My gut feeling is that this is wrong (especially since actually
> they've posted copyright 2002-2008 and the fork happened in 2008.) but
> there's probably nothing to be done about it.If nothing else, it's kind of obnoxious; typically forks will just add their copyright line to the existing copyright lines, and leave them otherwise unchanged (maybe condensing them a bit to save space) I don't know why they'd do that if it wasn't a hostile fork... -Miles -- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin] _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
