Karl Berry writes:
I was only talking about US copyright law. I don't know the answer for
a fact myself, it's not like I know where to look in the civil code.
Everything you need to know can be found at the US Copyright Office's
web site: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/.
Under UK
Hi Larry.
I was only talking about US copyright law. I don't know the answer
for a fact myself, it's not like I know where to look in the civil
code.
Everything you need to know can be found at the US Copyright
Office's web site: http://www.loc.gov/copyright/.
Under UK copyright law,
Karl Berry writes:
It would be good to update CVS to the GPL version 2, and change the
copyright notices in the individual files to be what's legally recommended.
Why?
-Larry Jones
The living dead don't NEED to solve word problems. -- Calvin
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It would be good to update CVS to the GPL version 2, and change the
copyright notices in the individual files to be what's legally recommended.
Why?
1) Because there are (small) bugs in version 1. That's why there was a
version 2, after all.
2) So that the cvs copyrights have
Do you know what they are?
Not any more. I can research again. But is there a problem with just
updating? It's not like the basic meaning changed or anything.
It looks to me like the existing copyright notices do follow the
suggestions. In what way do you think they're
Karl Berry writes:
1) Because there are (small) bugs in version 1. That's why there was a
version 2, after all.
Do you know what they are? I've looked at gnu.org, but I can't find any
summary of the changes from version 1 to version 2 or any rationale for
the revisions. And there are
Karl Berry writes [quoting me]:
Do you know what they are?
Not any more. I can research again. But is there a problem with just
updating? It's not like the basic meaning changed or anything.
But the details may have. If the changes are just clarifications, then
I don't have a
advance the FSF's political agenda
There is no political agenda to using the standard copyright notices.
However, since you don't want to do so, don't.
Sorry to bother.
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