Follow-up Comment #13, task #16666 (group administration):
> Now, the only file more than 10 lines missing the copyright is .gitignore, > which if that's the requirement I can add it. However I don't think it is > needed, > [https://gitweb.git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=autoconf.git;a=blob;f=.gitignore > autoconf] doesn't have it. When comparing with other packages, some points should be considered, * Whether the case is really analogous. * Whether the maintainers made a mistake. * In case it wasn't a mistake, why (e.g. what makes it non-copyrightable). > Then, the other file that I've copied is COPYING. The copyright holder of the > COPYING file itself is the MIT (AFAIK), the ones that wrote that text. > This is tricky, what should I write? Myself as the copyright holder of the > package, the MIT as the organization that wrote the license, or both? I can suggest a workaround: the README file contains the licensing terms and copyright notice for the package, so COPYING isn't needed and may be removed---especially because in cases of short permissive licenses, the license notice is an exact copy of the whole license. Actually, I wouldn't insist on removing that file because the text is 14 non-empty lines long. It's close enough to the threshold. > And finally, there is one file which I generated and edited, the Doxyfile.in. > In this case the generated Doxyfile file didn't have any copyright notice. I > generated it by running "doxygen -g" and then I edited it. > Who's the copyright holder of a file generated by a software that doesn't > have any copyright notice? If I understand it correctly, that command [//www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatCaseIsOutputGPL copies parts of its package] to the output. The copyright holder and the license is inherited from those parts of the package (unless the package provides some kind of exception for such generated files). _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?16666> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.nongnu.org/
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