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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: How to add missing copyright and license headers to sources?
From:       Scott Wheeler <wheeler () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-02-16 18:21:22
Message-ID: 45D5F622.8060307 () kde ! org
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Thomas Zander wrote:
> The person on IRC who told you that was also not a lawyer :)
> Its entirely OK to make clear the thing that was already fact. And if a person 
> writes a large chunk of code, he holds a copyright to it. Thats the law, and 
> thus a fact.

That's true of copyright, but not of license.  That's actually the 
tricky part; those authors did of course already have copyright, but 
without a previous license in those files it may be problematic to 
assume that the authors consent to the code being BSD licensed.  I 
didn't look through the current stuff, but I noticed at one point in the 
past some of my (GPL) code had been copied from JuK and listed in Noatun 
as BSD licensed.

-Scott
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