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Re: Copyright years in source code
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Gary E. Miller |
Subject: |
Re: Copyright years in source code |
Date: |
Fri, 8 May 2020 11:10:37 -0700 |
Yo Sanjeev!
On Sat, 9 May 2020 00:55:08 +0800
Sanjeev Gupta <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 3:42 AM Gary E. Miller via devel
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> >
> > I did this at the suggestion of Mark Atwood. He is project head for
> > gpsd, NTPsec and other projects. He also works at Amazon on
> > software license issues. The MAGA have deemed that the current
> > copyright notices in gpsd are the way they all want it done.
> >
>
> Gary, my proposal was to follow what NTPsec is doing, exactly.
yes, but I partly disagree.
> Currently:
>
> NTPsec: Copyright Some-Name <some-email>
> GPSd: Copyright (c) Some-Year Some-Name <some-email>
Uh, no. I removed all of the (c) in the top level of gpsd and most of
the rest. (c) never meant anything in any legal system.
I think the year of first publication still has some use as it disambiguates
which version of copyright law applies.
RGDS
GARY
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- Copyright years in source code, Sanjeev Gupta, 2020/05/06
- Re: Copyright years in source code, John Ackermann, 2020/05/06
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Gary E. Miller, 2020/05/06
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Richard Laager, 2020/05/08
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Gary E. Miller, 2020/05/08
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Mark Atwood, 2020/05/09
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Gary E. Miller, 2020/05/09
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Bernd Zeimetz, 2020/05/10
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Gary E. Miller, 2020/05/10
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Bernd Zeimetz, 2020/05/10
- Re: Copyright years in source code, Sanjeev Gupta, 2020/05/09