On Saturday 05 September 2009 4:26:03 pm Shaun Reich wrote: > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Alex Merry wrote: > > Forwarding to kde-licensing@, which is where this discussion belongs. > > > > On Saturday 05 September 2009 21:22:07 you wrote: > >> On Saturday 05 September 2009, you wrote: > >> > Hi, > >> > > >> > Seems sensible to me. Do we have to put license text at the top of > >> > every CMakeLists.txt file or is there a simpler alternative? > >> > >> I don't know if we have to do something about the CMakeLists.txt, this > >> was primarily for the FindFoo.cmake files. > >> This is what we currently have there: > >> > >> # Copyright (c) 2006, NAME, > >> # > >> # Redistribution and use is allowed according to the terms of the BSD > >> license. # For details see the accompanying COPYING-CMAKE-SCRIPTS file. > > > > The (c) is pointless. > > > > Really, the BSD license should be included wholesale. It's not that > > long, and prevents any ambiguity. See > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Licensing_Policy#BSD_License for how it > > should look. > > > > Alex > > > > > > > > -- > > Why have I got six monitors? Because I haven't got room for eight. > > -- Terry Pratchett > > In what ways is the copyright pointless? For this choice of license, > choice of source files, or globally pointless? Regular source files > use them, and I do not see why or how that would be pointless. > He's only saying that the use of the parenthesis c in the copyright line is pointless since in the original Berne Convention that was not recognized as a valid copyright symbol. Only the circle C (which only works if our sources are all in UTF8) or the word 'Copyright' followed by a list of years the work was completed on and the holder are allowed in the marking to denote copyright attribution. Nothing more. -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. Sent from: skuld.tolharadys.net 2:29am up 1:30, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.20, 0.31 ========================================================================== Developer and Project Lead for the AltimatOS open source project Volunteer Developer for the KDE open source project See http://www.altimatos.com/ and http://www.kde.org/ for more information ========================================================================== Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.