Am 27.08.2012 23:03, schrieb Dan Dennedy:
>> This is already done if you keep all copyright/license information from
>> the source in your copy,
> 
> Really? Is that how you read it? If you defer distribution of the
> source code to upon request and distribute binary by default, then
> copyrights in comment headers do not appear.

That is the reason why I say: IANAL (I am not a lawyer), just did not
thought about the requirement in this situation to still deliver the
license of the used software, sorry!

> He asked about a contact for the license. The copyright holder of a
> component can make their component available under an alternate
> license. Otherwise, how would anyone know who is the licensor and who
> to contact? In the MLT project, there is no required copyright
> assignment agreement for contributors, but I consider that a patch
> submitter has only earned copyright if they are added as such in the
> comment header.
> 

To be exactly yes that is right, So if I would e.g. submit patches I
also had to add/modify with it the copyright headers. I do not need it
for myself to get added as contributor but at the end if you would e.g.
decide to switch tomorrow to a closed license it still would be
problematic for you if I would disagree (as long as you would continue
to use my patches) at the courts. But as I said this is too detailed and
in general not my goal :)

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