Shantonu Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 16 May 2002, Ken Hornstein wrote:
> > one sticking point is that the copyright pedigree of nmh is not clear.
> > Currently, the copyright of nmh is assigned to "The Authors of nmh" and
> > that's a little fuzzy (also, not all of the source code files have copyright
> > assignments, and that's a problem they have as well).
> 
> One definition of "Authors of nmh" is anyone referenced in the ChangeLog,
> either as committer, or credited for the patch.

That was what I had in mind when I changed it back in March 2000 (discussed
in the "COPYRIGHT is bogus..." thread).  Prior to that, it had Richard
claiming copyright over the whole thing, which was clearly not kosher.

I guess it wouldn't hurt to explicitly define what is meant by "the authors
of nmh" somewhere.

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Dan Harkless    
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