Re: Copyright notices.

[Pat Costello <Patrick Costello Sun COM>]

yes, I'll file this change in bugzilla, unless someone comes back with a strong 
reason why we shouldn't make this change. I'll wait a day or two before raising 
the bug, so. 

Pat

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> Pat -
> This seems a reasonable change. Can you file it in bugzilla?
> Cheers,
> John
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> On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 03:53, Pat Costello wrote:
> > There was a string on the developers mailing list that related to the proper 
use 
> > of copyright notices. See attached. 
> > 
> > I had a look at GNOME Help manuals and I noticed that we are using the 
following 
> > format: 
> > 
> > "Copyright" <copyright symbol> [copyright date] [copyright owner]
> > 
> > According to my researches, the format should be one of the following: 
> > 
> > Where Space is Not a Problem: 
> > =============================
> > 
> > "Copyright" [copyright date] [copyright owner]
> > 
> > or
> > 
> > Where Space is Limited: 
> > =======================
> > 
> > <copyright symbol> [copyright date] [copyright owner]
> > 
> > Therefore, what we are using right now is overkill. I suggest we change the 
> > format to the first one above, namely the space-is-not-a-problem format. 
This 
> > looks like a style sheet change. 
> > 
> > Pat
> > 
> > 
> > ----------------Attachment from 
desktop-devel-list gnome org-----------------
> > On 14 Nov 2002 Pat opined: 
> > 
> > The view from the documentation perspective...
> > 
> > Thanks for bringing up this point. I did a bit of research and here are my 
> > findings: 
> > 
> > - A discrete piece of software or documentation should always contain a 
proper 
> > copyright notice. A statement of the bleating obvious you say, well, the key 
> > word here is "proper". 
> > 
> > - A proper copyright notice consists of the following: 
> > 
> > 	o 	The word "Copyright" or, if there is a shortage of space, the 		
> > 		copyright symbol, which is a C in a closed circle. 
> > 
> > 		NOTE: (c) has no legal weight. Never use (c). 
> > 	
> > 	o 	The year of first publication of the work, usually the year of 
> > 		FCS.
> > 		
> > 	o 	The owner of the copyright. 
> > 	
> > I've just noticed that in the Help and other documentation we have been 
using 
> > both the word "Copyright" and the copyright symbol in our copyright notices. 
> > Whereas this is not wrong, it is belt-and-braces and really should be just 
> > "Copyright". I need to take up this topic on the gnome-doc-list. I also need 
to 
> > include the above information in the GNOME Documentation Style Guide so we 
have 
> > the topic covered for future reference. 
> > 
> > Pat
> > 	
> >  To: Gareth Bowker <tgb tgb org uk>
> > > Cc: desktop-devel-list gnome org
> > > Am Son, 2002-09-22 um 12.46 schrieb Gareth Bowker:
> > > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 11:57:08AM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > > > Another aspect are the copyright entries:
> > > > > Some developery use
> > > > > (C) <year> <name> or
> > > > > Copyright (C) <name> <year>,
> > > > > some others
> > > > > <name> (C) <year>
> > > > > and so on.
> > > > > What's the "official" (or at least the most used) expression?
> > > > > Additionally, we should replace the (C) by a copyright character
> > > > > wherever possible (e.g. UTF-8, ISO-8859-X charsets).
> > > > 
> > > > I heard a while ago that you should always write the word Copyright in 
full,
> > > > e.g.
> > > > 
> > > > Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation
> > > > 
> > > > That's also the most-used form I've seen.
> > > > 
> > > > I seem to recall that (C) holds no legal meaning, the copyright symbol
> > > > however does. Or something like that. It was a long time ago.
> > > 
> > > Whohoo!
> > > Just look at gnome-panel HEAD po. I think we broke our record:
> > > (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc.
> > > (C) 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> > > (c) 2001 Red Hat, Inc
> > > Copyright 2002 Red Hat, Inc.
> > > 
> > > I hope we'll find a solution until 2.2 is released.
> > > 
> > > regs,
> > >  Chris
> > > 
> > > 
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