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List:       kde-licensing
Subject:    Re: [kdbusaddons] src/tools/kquitapp: Revert r1154600: Modified (some) 'About' windows to carry lega
From:       Alex Merry <alex.merry () kde ! org>
Date:       2014-03-02 11:58:02
Message-ID: 53131CCA.3040204 () kde ! org
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If anyone's confused by this (as I was for a while), this is the result
of someone doing a slightly odd cross-repository history merge without
cleaning CCMAIL lines.

Alex


On 11/02/14 14:17, Aleix Pol wrote:
> Git commit 9fa59c78df6e0c6e9a38a14aedad77b7e715febe by Aleix Pol, on \
> behalf of Alex Merry. Committed on 26/07/2010 at 13:07.
> Pushed by apol into branch 'master'.
> 
> Revert r1154600: Modified (some) 'About' windows to carry legally \
> enforceable Copyright messages. Also looks better than '(c)'. ;-) Also \
> fixed a few typos where I noticed them. 
> Please don't do huge sweeping changes of KAboutData things without \
> talking to the authors first.  I'm sure they don't appreciate having \
> their names removed from the about dialogs. 
> Note that
> (a) the unicode copyright character is no more enforcible than (c)
> (b) while "the KDE developers" is not a legal entity, neither is "Dolphin \
> authors" (c) it was decided a while back that we don't care about whether \
> the copyrights in about dialogs are meaningful, since they can't hope to \
> encompass everyone who holds copyrights on the application code or any of \
> the libraries it is linked to; the copyright headers in the source files \
> are the important ones. 
> I realise that I'm reverting more than necessary, but that's just a \
> reason for breaking up commits :-) 
> CCMAIL: kamikazow@web.de
> CCMAIL: kde-licensing@kde.org
> 
> svn path=/trunk/KDE/kdebase/runtime/; revision=1154884
> 
> M  +1    -1    src/tools/kquitapp/kquitapp.cpp
> 
> http://commits.kde.org/kdbusaddons/9fa59c78df6e0c6e9a38a14aedad77b7e715febe
>  
> diff --git a/src/tools/kquitapp/kquitapp.cpp \
> b/src/tools/kquitapp/kquitapp.cpp index 43b3790..df0f9ea 100644
> --- a/src/tools/kquitapp/kquitapp.cpp
> +++ b/src/tools/kquitapp/kquitapp.cpp
> @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
> KAboutData aboutData( "kquitapp", 0, ki18n("Command-line application \
> quitter"), "1.0", ki18n("Quit a D-Bus enabled application easily"), \
>                 KAboutData::License_GPL,
> -                           ki18n("Copyright  © 2006–2011 Aaron Seigo") \
> ); +                           ki18n("(c) 2006, Aaron Seigo") );
> aboutData.addAuthor(ki18n("Aaron J. Seigo"), ki18n("Current maintainer"), \
> "aseigo@kde.org"); KCmdLineArgs::init(argc, argv, &aboutData);
> 
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