From: Glenn Morris <gmorris+emacs@ast.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 20:35:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r4655rlhmh.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
If John Smith is the author of foo.el, with Copyright header:
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 John Smith <js@example.com>
and in 2004 he assigns the copyright to the FSF so that foo.el can be
included in Emacs, should the Copyright in the Emacs version of foo.el
read:
Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 John Smith <js@example.com>
or just:
Copyright (C) 2000, 2002, 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
or something else?
Maintain.texi "Copyright Notices" suggests the latter:
For an FSF-copyrighted package, if you have followed the procedures
to obtain legal papers, each file should have just one copyright
holder: the Free Software Foundation, Inc.
but I'm unsure about being revisionist (as it were).
I guess this is not an Emacs-specific question, but someone here will
probably know. Thanks in advance.
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-03 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-03 19:35 Glenn Morris [this message]
2004-10-04 15:17 ` Changes to Copyright: header after copyright assignment Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 22:34 ` Glenn Morris
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