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[Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>]

Andrew a écrit :
> Yea, but remember that authorship, ownership, patent holder, copyright
> owner, liscensor, and releasor all bear different meanings :) So I dont
> think the question is ever about removing authorship its just about who
> is the proper copyright owner in this case, they can be the same, but
> can also be different. Authorship (IMO) is best left to be described in
> ChangeLogs and through revision history.

Yes. That's why I'm not sure about all of this. The worst I've seen is 
that GPL'ed software does not imply it's not covered by a patent or 
trademark law (see Kaffe, Mozilla, ...).

I just reread the GPL FAQ [1] and it says:

"If several people have helped write the code, use ALL their names. If 
you have copied code from other programs covered by the same license, 
copy their copyright notices too. Put all the copyright notices 
together, right near the top of EACH file."

So, I think we were right to have the copyright statements at the top of 
each files. We now need to add the GPL header too and a COPYING file 
since right now the word "GPL" is not in the source code :-)

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru

[1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html