Re: [Perlunit-devel] update and copyrights question

[Matthew A. <mc...@us...>]

(Yes, I'm still here .. sorry I've been so quiet, I'm mostly using
JUnit instead, at the moment!)

On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:49:39PM +0000, Adam Spiers wrote:

> Another cosmetic issue I'd like to address is a bit delicate. We
> currently have copyrights, licenses, and out of date author
> attributions in pretty much every file in the distribution.
> [...]
> What do you all think?

I agree entirely. I haven't contributed very much of course, but I'm
happy to be moved out to a credits file. 9-)

Surely the main thing is that the respective authors maintain their
copyright over & credit for the project? In which case, having each
individual file point at the credits/licence and then putting a decent
history in that file should do the trick? IANAL...


Your point though, is (?) that it's the delicacy of refactoring the
credits which is the problem, not the legality.

If the new file structure serves the same legal purpose then surely
you're only obliged to ask each author out of politeness? Then if you
don't get a reply after a few weeks, the person probably doesn't care?


Matthew  #8-)