Re: [gentoo-dev] Copyright issues

[Ian Stakenvicius]

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On 20/11/12 04:26 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony G Basile wrote:
>
>> The other levels are files and projects. So this leads to the
>> other confusion, do you touch every file in the project when
>> forking etc.
>
>> The answer appears to be that a file is the unit, but from
>> practice I've seen all three. What is correct is what passes in
>> the courts and I do not want to, nor have I ever, tested that.
>> [...]
>
> The FSF appears to take the standpoint that the project as a whole
> is the unit. In their "Information for maintainers of GNU software"
> [1] there is the following paragraph:
>
> | To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you
> have | made nontrivial changes to the package.  [...]  When you add
> the new | year, it is not required to keep track of which files
> have seen | significant changes in the new year and which have not.
> It is | recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in
> the | package, and be done with it for the rest of the year.
>
> I've also found [2] which says that the above is based on legal
> advice from Eben Moglen.
>
> Ulrich
>
> [1]
> <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustandards/maintain.texi?root=gnustandards&view=markup>
>
>
[2] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-12/msg00327.html>
>

I did a quick scan; it seems though that this relates to updating the
scope of a copyright that someone already holds?  IE, not necessarily
relating to the transfer of copyright....
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