[SCM] pd-cyclone/master: Rewrite copyright file: Main licensing changed; Authors dropped; Lack of licensing added!!!

[Jonas Smedegaard]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:34:04PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>On Dec 10, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:19:39AM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner 
>>wrote:
>>>I do see notice of copyright in debian/copyright with each line 
>>>marked Copyright: I know the proprietary software Cycling '74 Max/MSP 
>>>uses code from Pd, which is BSD licensed.  They do include the line 
>>>of credit in their own copyright statement, but they don't include 
>>>the actual BSD license file that I could find.  So I'm not the only 
>>>one to have that opinion.
>>
>>Two wrongs don't make a right.
>
>I was just illustrating that it is common practice, tho its not 100% 
>correct according to the letter of license.  Duplicating the copyright 
>notice alone does certainly fully respect the spirit of the license, 
>IMHO.

Ah, ok.



>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_notice
>>
>>It is not obvious to me why did you referenced that page. Was it 
>>because it mentions copyright notices no longer required in USA 
>>jurisdiction?  Well, that is irrelevant for my point, as I am not 
>>talking about claiming copyright, but about obeying a license: the 
>>_license_ requires copyrigh notices to be reserved IN ALL COPIES.
>
>I was trying to point out that the notice is not the license, its just 
>the "Copyright 2000, Hans-Christoph Steiner" line.

Ahh - I understand you now.

Makes sense to me.  Thanks for your ptience with me :-)


 - Jonas

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