From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Carsten Mattner Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Updating copyright years Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:36:50 +0100 Message-ID: References: <37vcoprbco.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <86lipfp1vd.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <87lipe9wy0.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87y5te8b09.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326299829 8711 80.91.229.12 (11 Jan 2012 16:37:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:37:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 11 17:37:03 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl1Ac-0008I1-Bk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:37:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl1Ab-0007b7-Si for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl1AU-0007Y6-8O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:36:59 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl1AS-000690-0f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:36:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:35884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Rl1AR-00068u-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:36:51 -0500 Original-Received: by ggnp4 with SMTP id p4so503675ggn.0 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:36:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=mJwMMTkytlloxMgULo2h1P886rmxK1QD/uCLIVmjips=; b=jzxLezRarpVqpDOGH6vO7TRZ/B6jjidZlCBJgZ/ppV8qpiLlmL+ojQANlsQbVrRqSe NE5WwwfjFkJZVLGH9uxrJNYk/c5VRJi1lJZu946UFl7jnMsHIHZw6xPD/Tb6Tyl+pPhn nAD3YowEm79RWAskEgAxzbhgorf13Wl5AqZWY= Original-Received: by 10.50.88.230 with SMTP id bj6mr7775443igb.26.1326299810956; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:36:50 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.50.18.41 with HTTP; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:36:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87y5te8b09.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.161.169 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147592 Archived-At: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull w= rote: > The problem with a permission-by-reference is that the user doesn't > know what her rights are, not that the owner of the copyright can't > enforce any restrictions that they choose to maintain (if they're > enforceable at all, of course). =A0With a well-known license such as the > GPL, it's really not necessary to provide a copy of the license from a > legal point of view (except in cases where it's an invariant section > in an FDL document or the like). =A0However, the GPL is also an advocacy > document, so providing it in every distribution is a GoodThang. So if I had something like: // Copyright __YEAR__ The __PROJECT__ Authors. All Rights Reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a __LICENSE__ // license that can be found in the LICENSE file. Is that good enough? Looking at src/nsterm.m as an example, it also doesn't have a copy of the GPL but a long reference to it plus some surrounding explanation. /* GNU Emacs 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 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. */ Isn't this almost the same reference-only licensing header?