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Moin,

I'm currently cleaning up Noatun sources (to be found in kdemultimedia/noat=
un)=20
and ran into the problem that almost all files miss a license and/or=20
copyright header. There's kdemultimedia/noatun/COPYING which states that=20
everything should be under BSD license if not stated in the source file.

Now I have the following questions:

=2D Is it ok to add the BSD license text from=20
http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html to all source files th=
at=20
lack a license header and remove the COPYING file (IIRC license files shoul=
d=20
not be scattered around kde svn)

=2D Whom to add as copyright holders? I wasted my whole last night to find=
=20
previous authors for a file including their full name and email and then I=
=20
manually picked the ones that did major work on a file and added them with=
=20
their respective commit timeframe. Later I was told on IRC that adding=20
copyright for persons other than me is probably not a good idea (read: wron=
g)

slighly less important:
=2D How safe is the BSD license if you're just coding for fun and don't wan=
t to=20
get sued in case you run into a copyright or patent issue by pure accident=
=20
(i.e. you didn't know before that you infrige a patent or read something th=
at=20
has a restrictive copyright)?

Bye, Stefan aka mETz

PS: Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to kde-licensing, thanks

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