Developers of Sympa

[IKEDA Soji <address@concealed>]

Hi RENATER folks,

About copyright notice and statement of permission ---

I wrote at 18 April:
> * 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.

However, there are no decision about it.  So I propose the template.
If necessary, please request Legal Deparatment of RENATER to check
if these statements are appropriate.

As I said earler, I cannot make decision on this issue.


This is template.  At beginning of source file, this text will be placed:
-------------------- >8 -------------------- >8 --------------------
# Sympa - SYsteme de Multi-Postage Automatique
#
# Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999 Institut Pasteur & Christophe Wolfhugel
# Copyright (c) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
# 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Comite Reseau des Universites
# Copyright (c) 2011, 2012, 2013 GIP RENATER
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

<<The code begins at this line.>>
-------------------- 8< -------------------- 8< --------------------
End of template.


About credit to author(s) I'll write later.

Regards,

--- Soji


On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:04:25 +0900
IKEDA Soji <address@concealed> wrote:

> 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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株式会社 コンバージョン  セキュリティ&OSSソリューション部   池田荘児
〒231-0004　神奈川県横浜市中区元浜町3-21-2 ヘリオス関内ビル7F
e-mail address@concealed  TEL 045-640-3550
http://www.conversion.co.jp/