
Tom wrote:

[snip]

> I've noticed that Jan and a couple of other people have put copyright
> notices in their own names on files that they've created from scratch,
> but I feel uncomfortable with that practice.  The Ghostscript/readline
> fiasco illustrates the potential problems you can get into with
> divergent copyrights on chunks of code that need to be distributed
> together.  My personal feeling is that if you're a member of the team,
> stick the team copyright on it; don't open a can of legal worms.

I agree with you. I'm not sure if there are anything like this in the
jdbc or contrib/lo stuff saying my copyright, but if there is, feel free
to change it to the team's copyright - I tend to run in autopilot when
it comes to adding copyrights.

Saying that, I'm doubtful that all of the JDBC source has a copyright
notice of any kind in there. I'll trawl my copy of the source to see if
this is the case.

Peter

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Maidstone Borough Council
Any views stated are my own, and not those of Maidstone Borough Council.



Wed, 20 Oct 1999 08:08:15 +0100
Peter Mount <petermount@it.maidstone.gov.uk>
RE: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble? 
Peter Mount wrote:

> Tom wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > I've noticed that Jan and a couple of other people have put copyright
> > notices in their own names on files that they've created from scratch,
> > but I feel uncomfortable with that practice.  The Ghostscript/readline
> > fiasco illustrates the potential problems you can get into with
> > divergent copyrights on chunks of code that need to be distributed
> > together.  My personal feeling is that if you're a member of the team,
> > stick the team copyright on it; don't open a can of legal worms.
>
> I agree with you. I'm not sure if there are anything like this in the
> jdbc or contrib/lo stuff saying my copyright, but if there is, feel free
> to change it to the team's copyright - I tend to run in autopilot when
> it comes to adding copyrights.
>
> Saying that, I'm doubtful that all of the JDBC source has a copyright
> notice of any kind in there. I'll trawl my copy of the source to see if
> this is the case.

    Agreed.  I consider anything in the CVS actually owned by the
    team.  I don't have the time, so if someone else  would  like
    to, change all my copyright notices to the team.


Jan

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Wed, 20 Oct 1999 11:56:01 +0200 (MET DST)
wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Re: [HACKERS] Readline use in trouble?