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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