[PATCH app-transset] COPYING: make the content reflect the copyright statements in source code

Gaetan Nadon memsize at videotron.ca
Fri Feb 10 11:40:07 PST 2012


On 12-02-09 08:47 PM, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> writes:
>
>> I'll let you add the copyright  statement and the license license text
>> in each source file.  You may post a patch with just  one file in case
>> there  are some  misunderstanding. I'll  review it.  Another angle  to
>> having proper  licensing is that it  protects the code itself  as free
>> software.  The  X.Org preferred license  says you can do  whatever you
>> want but  it comes with the  obligation of letting others  do whatever
>> they want as well.
> I have  just added  copyright statement  and update  accordingly COPYING
> file, and  committed it  to my  personal repository[0].  Let me  know if
> that's ok and I will push it to  the main repository now that I have the
> permissions to do so.
>
> Regards,
Great, just one nit, looking at the xserver which has had to solve this
issue in the past, the Copyright word should appear for each copyright
holder, even if it is the same year.

For example:

    Copyright © 2008 Red Hat, Inc
    Copyright © 2008 George Sapountzis <gsap7 at yahoo.gr>

With that fixed,

Reviewed-by: Gaetan Nadon<memsize at videotron.ca>

Thanks, this will formalize credit to the authors and protect free software.





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