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Re: Copyright notice
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Thomas Schwinge |
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Re: Copyright notice |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:20:25 +0200 |
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Hello!
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 03:28:48PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote:
> I'm copying over some files from libstore to use as a base for
> libchannel, I'm rewriting part of them and I'm not sure how to treat
> the copyright notices, i.e. which parts to keep.
>
> For instance the copyright notice in libstore/store.h is:
>
> Store I/O
>
> Copyright (C) 1995,96,97,98,99,2001,02,04,05 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> Written by Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
> This file is part of the GNU Hurd.
>
> <rest of licence>
>
> Which I changed to the following in libchannel/channel.h:
>
> Channel I/O
>
> Copyright (C) 1995,96,97,98,99,2001,02,04,05,07 Free Software Foundation,
> Inc.
> Written by Carl Fredrik Hammar <hammy.lite@gmail.com>
> This file is part of the GNU Hurd.
>
> <rest of licence>
>
> Would this be appropriate, or should I reset the copyright years?
> Should I keep Miles Bader as an author?
If you really copy a file you also keep the original file's copyright
status. Then you could add something like ``Reworked for libchannel
by...'' after the ``Written by...'' line.
> Should I break the overly long copyright line?
Yes. See `[Hurd]/fatfs/inode.c' for an example how I have done it.
Regards,
Thomas
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