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Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment
From: |
Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment |
Date: |
Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:35:34 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
If John Smith is the author of foo.el, with Copyright header:
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 John Smith <address@hidden>
and in 2004 he assigns the copyright to the FSF so that foo.el can be
included in Emacs, should the Copyright in the Emacs version of foo.el
read:
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 John Smith <address@hidden>
or just:
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
or something else?
Maintain.texi "Copyright Notices" suggests the latter:
For an FSF-copyrighted package, if you have followed the procedures
to obtain legal papers, each file should have just one copyright
holder: the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
but I'm unsure about being revisionist (as it were).
I guess this is not an Emacs-specific question, but someone here will
probably know. Thanks in advance.
- Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment,
Glenn Morris <=