Re: Licensing and copyright

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

On 23/02/2004 10:48 AM, Andy Tai wrote:

> I remember seeing the message "Copyright 1999-200x
> Free Software Foundation, Inc. " in the about boxes of
> several GNOME programs. 
>  
In most cases, those messages are incorrect.  Often they are cases of "I 
would like to assign this to the FSF" rather than "I have assigned this 
to the FSF", which is really bad because it makes it difficult to know 
who owns the code.

The copyright guidelines should make it absolutely clear that accurate 
copyright notices are critical, both for packages where copyright is 
assigned and those where it is retained.

James.

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