Re: copyright notices (was: Re: Are we (nearly) ready for 3.4 yet?)

[John W. Eaton]

On  6-Jan-2011, Jaroslav Hajek wrote:

| I also think that having a written copyright assignment as a
| precondition to any significant changes could lose you some potential
| contributors. And it's not just because of the copyright itself, but
| because programmers are lazy folk :)

It seems not to hurt Emacs or GCC, so what is different about Octave
(or the people who contribute to it)?

jwe