Re: gpl version 2 for cvs

[Larry Jones]

Karl Berry writes:
> 
> I was only talking about US copyright law.  I don't know the answer for
> a fact myself, it's not like I know where to look in the civil code.

Everything you need to know can be found at the US Copyright Office's
web site: <http://www.loc.gov/copyright/>.

>     Under UK copyright law, the opposite is true: If copyright is
>     claimed for more than two consecutive years, then they MUST be
>     specified as a range to be legally valid.

Has the UK not signed the Berne Convention?  The whole point of it was
to avoid such gratuitous differences.  (The Berne Convention doesn't
require any notice at all, let alone a specific form of notice.)

-Larry Jones

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