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Re: Licensing of modules for libposix
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Licensing of modules for libposix |
Date: |
Wed, 04 May 2011 12:20:41 +0200 |
Reuben Thomas wrote:
> On 4 May 2011 10:37, Jim Meyering <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Copyright is covered by the notice at the top of every file.
>> Authorship is another story. I've seen no reason to add the name
>> of every "author" to each source file that's affected (and am
>> strongly inclined never to do that).
>> That is meta data and belongs in the logs, not in the sources.
>>
>> Besides, users of gnulib will need to know authorship of an
>> individual file no more than we need to know who contributed
>> to glibc's stdio-common/vprintf.c.
>
> In that case why is anyone's name in any file header? Shouldn't they all be
> FSF?
Are you asking about authorship or copyright?
Most files are Copyright... by the FSF.
A rare few have individual or some corporation's name there.
It is not uncommon for the original author to add
a "written by ..." comment near the top.
IMHO, there is nothing wrong with that.
It's the original author's choice.
However, adding a new name anywhere in source files for each
new author who contributes a copyright-significant change would not
be worth the trouble.
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, (continued)
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Reuben Thomas, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Jim Meyering, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Reuben Thomas, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Karl Berry, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/05/05
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/05/07
- Dual Licensing for Apple App Store Distibution [Was Re: Licensing of modules for libposix], Gary V. Vaughan, 2011/05/08
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Jim Meyering, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Reuben Thomas, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix,
Jim Meyering <=
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Bruce Korb, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Jim Meyering, 2011/05/05
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/05/07
- Re: Licensing of libposix, Bruno Haible, 2011/05/07
- Re: Licensing of libposix, Paolo Bonzini, 2011/05/07
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Ralf Wildenhues, 2011/05/09
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Bruno Haible, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Reuben Thomas, 2011/05/04
- Re: Licensing of modules for libposix, Reuben Thomas, 2011/05/04