[PATCH app-transset] COPYING: make the content reflect the copyright statements in source code
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Wed Jan 25 17:37:56 PST 2012
On 01/25/12 05:33 PM, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thank you very much for all your patches.
>
> Gaetan Nadon<memsize at videotron.ca> writes:
>
>> No "Copyright © 2003 Keith Packard" could be found in source code.
>
> There is only one copyright header in the source code, and this is for
> dsimple.c which is just convenient Xlib code shared by many X projects
> and some additional code added by Daniel. You can find additional
> information there:
>
> http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/t/transset-df/transset-df_6-1/transset-df.copyright
>
> Therefore, I think this patch should be amended to add comments in
> transSet.c stating that this is in public domain along with the authors
> name, and update COPYING accordingly. Could you do it or should I do it?
Be careful - you can only state that if the authors have explicitly relinquished
their copyrights, and shouldn't assume they have without evidence of that.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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