From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Carsten Mattner <carstenmattner@googlemail.com>
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Updating copyright years
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:13:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RlC2W-00048P-Vi@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACY+HvoB0qr6Yv1Whp9_xuxu+X1F7HACoP6z36b7zJc_d5qMwA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Carsten Mattner on Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:36:50 +0100)
With 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
Actually it is a requirement: the GPL says you must include a copy of
the GPL when you distribute a GPL-covered work.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-12 4:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <E1RilkG-0001VX-GA@quimby.gnus.org>
[not found] ` <m3fwfufjjl.fsf@stories.gnus.org>
2012-01-05 23:05 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-05 23:14 ` Updating copyright years Glenn Morris
2012-01-05 23:54 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2012-01-07 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-10 23:35 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2012-01-11 13:43 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-01-11 14:21 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-11 16:22 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 16:36 ` Carsten Mattner
2012-01-12 4:13 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2012-01-12 6:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-11 19:39 ` Richard Stallman
2012-01-07 1:45 ` Updating copyright years (was Re: [gnus git] branch master updated: n0-17-447-g55c26cf =1= Add 2012 to FSF copyright years for Emacs files.) Stephen J. Turnbull
2012-01-07 4:16 ` Jason Rumney
2005-05-17 21:48 Updating copyright years Kim F. Storm
2005-05-18 13:20 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-05-18 22:44 ` Richard Stallman
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