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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jason Self <jason@bluehome.net>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Add GNU fdisk
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 21:18:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pq2yg5pr.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354043747.17765@bluehome.net> (Jason Self's message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:15:48 -0800 (PST)")

Hi,

"Jason Self" <jason@bluehome.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès said: 
>> Yes, I’ve been wondering too.  The thing is, while most are purely
>> declarative like this, some, like those in base.scm, are trickier 
>> and definitely copyrightable.  In base.scm, the composition of 
>> packages in the bootstrap phase may also be copyrightable in itself.
>
> I suppose that there's no harm in adding one, then. Even if it should 
> turn out that it's not copyrightable an invalid copyright notice 
> wouldn't cause any harm in this case.

Yes.

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita.karetnikov@gmail.com> skribis:

> So, what's the policy on copyright statements?
>
> I'm not a lawyer that's why I think that it's better to be safe than
> sorry (i.e. to use a copyright statement).

Agreed.  So the policy is unchanged: each file must contain a copyright
statement.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-11-27 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-25 22:25 Add GNU fdisk Jason Self
2012-11-26  0:07 ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-26 13:35   ` Nikita Karetnikov
2012-11-26 16:23     ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-26 18:47     ` Jason Self
2012-11-26 20:22       ` Ludovic Courtès
2012-11-27 18:29         ` Nikita Karetnikov
2012-11-27 19:15         ` Jason Self
2012-11-27 20:18           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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