Am Sonntag, 3. Dezember 2006 13:29 schrieb Linas Žvirblis: > Dennis Schridde wrote: > >> That's how I see our status quo: it's all just GPL. > > > > Sounds like an idea, but how do we tell that the distributors without > > adding a "disclaimer" or whatever else you call the text stating our > > interpretation? > > Just remove anything that might make people question the status of the > license. This includes disclaimers, any mentioning of other licenses and > unclear copyright notices (like "all rights reserved" stuff) in any > files, etc. Asking some lawyers some time ago resulted in the opinion that the "all rights reserved" parts belongs to the copyright which is protected by the GPL. So we can't remove those I think. (File: novideo.rpl) I think Ari explained that "all rights reserved" is just an addition to the copyright notice, stating that you don't hand over the copyright to whoever recieves the file.
How do other packages in Debian handle the install-sh file which comes under the X11 license as you told me a while ago? Do they all have to add a notice? Or did they not ship that file? COMPILE.html was removed, because outdated... > Adding GPL headers to all source files might also be a good idea. Ok, easy done. Allready have a script from earlier attempts that does this. --Dennis
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