[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Gforge-devel] gforge

[Mathieu Roy]

> Yes, I was hoping we could get some good advice on bringing all
> copyright issues up to 100% standard form. I have been told that a
> mixed copyright is "harder to defend".
> 
> It's not clear to me how you handle the files which are both VA
> Linux/Other copyright, and how to systematically eliminate all the VA
> Linux stuff without it poisoning the whole package with a mixed
> copyright.
> 
> Some people have said to remove all VA Linux copyrights in the
> headers, but I don't see how you can do that, when indeed they are
> copyrighted by VA.

We do not remove VA Linux copyright, it's illegal. We add ours. For
instance, you can get
 
// Copyright 1999-2000 (c) The SourceForge Crew
//
//  This is a modified version made by the Savannah Project
//  Copyright (C) 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation

There is no poison for us as all the SF code is GPLed. So we do not
really care whether there is VA Linux copyright or not, the license is
what matters. 


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Mathieu Roy
 
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