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From: | Phil Holmes |
Subject: | Re: Update copyright for 2016/17 files, and script (issue 320390043by address@hidden) |
Date: | Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:04:26 -0000 |
To: "Urs Liska" <address@hidden>; "Devel" <address@hidden> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2017 10:18 AMSubject: Re: Update copyright for 2016/17 files, and script (issue 320390043by address@hidden)
Hi Urs, My understanding of copyright is that the date range applies to the published work as a whole, and does not operate on the granularity of individual components. Furthermore, there is no legal requirement to actually have a copyright notice at all, as works are naturally copyright nowadays, and the notice is really only as a partial, and not critical, piece of backup evidence used if cases go to court. I speak from my knowledge of copyright in Australia, which is bound to be different to Germany, as copyright law is inconsistent across regions. Andrew
I think the copyright notice is a requirement of the GNU Ts and Cs:"Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such as "Copyright 1999 Terry Jones"), and a statement of copying permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL)."
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html --Phil Holmes
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