Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi all again,

On Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:03:53 +0200
Guillaume Rousse <address@concealed> wrote:

> Le 10/04/2013 14:41, address@concealed a écrit :
> > Revision
> >     9082
> > Author
> >     sikeda
> > Date
> >     2013-04-10 14:41:16 +0200 (mer. 10 avril 2013)
> >
> >
> >       Log Message
> >
> > [bug][#8066] [Submitted by X. Bachelot] FSF had moved.
> Which is yet another reason to restart a discussion I once suggested: do 
> we really need to have so much duplicated informations in every file, 
> whereas a simple reference to a centralised verbatim copy of license, 
> copyright and authorship information would be enough ?
> 
> That's just ugly to have 16 lines of legal information, whose usefulness 
> is not even proved, for a single line of code, such as  src/Makefile.am 
> file (sympa-cleanup branch) case, for instance.
> 
> I've just checked automake source file, they refer to FSF web site, 
> which offers better perenity garanties than a postal address:
> # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
> # along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

I read GPL Howto:

  http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

Accroding to this Howto, a "copyright notice" and a "statement of
copying permission" should be added to "each source file" of program
to use license (GPL) validly.

* Sympa is the intellectual property as deliverables by RENATER.

  Format and content of "copyright notice" would be decided
  according to RENATER's policy.  So I withhold opinion about them.

* Credit to authors cannot be a substitute for copyright notice.

  Conversely, there may not be any problems of keeping it.

* The Howto recommends "statement of copying permission" including
  three paragraphs.

  I suppose it would better to be added to all sources, regardless
  to their sizes.


Regards,

--- Soji

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