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Re: Updating copyright years
From: |
Carsten Mattner |
Subject: |
Re: Updating copyright years |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:36:50 +0100 |
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <address@hidden> wrote:
> The problem with a permission-by-reference is that the user doesn't
> know what her rights are, not that the owner of the copyright can't
> enforce any restrictions that they choose to maintain (if they're
> enforceable at all, of course). With a well-known license such as the
> GPL, it's really not necessary to provide a copy of the license from a
> legal point of view (except in cases where it's an invariant section
> in an FDL document or the like). However, the GPL is also an advocacy
> document, so providing it in every distribution is a GoodThang.
So if I had something like:
// Copyright __YEAR__ The __PROJECT__ Authors. All Rights Reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a __LICENSE__
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
Is that good enough?
Looking at src/nsterm.m as an example, it also doesn't have a copy of the
GPL but a long reference to it plus some surrounding explanation.
/*
GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
*/
Isn't this almost the same reference-only licensing header?
- Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.), Katsumi Yamaoka, 2012/01/05
- Re: Updating copyright years, Glenn Morris, 2012/01/05
- Re: Updating copyright years, Katsumi Yamaoka, 2012/01/05
- Re: Updating copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2012/01/06
- Re: Updating copyright years, Randal L. Schwartz, 2012/01/10
- Re: Updating copyright years, Ted Zlatanov, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years, Carsten Mattner, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years,
Carsten Mattner <=
- Re: Updating copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2012/01/11
- Re: Updating copyright years, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/12
- Re: Updating copyright years, Richard Stallman, 2012/01/11
Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2012/01/06
Re: Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.), Jason Rumney, 2012/01/06