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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: copyright messages
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2004-04-01 17:35:57
Message-ID: 200404011935.57478.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Thursday 01 April 2004 16:48, Marc Heyvaert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Well, there is a license policy...
>
> http://developer.kde.org/policies/licensepolicy.html

Yes, but it does not explain/fix how the copyright header should look like, 
only its minimum content.

>
> --- Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg@snafu.de> wrote:
> > As we are discussiong it publicly: does the word
> > "copyright" need to be on
> > each copyright line or not?
>
> I read up on the links that you provided, and for me
> it's clear that the word copyright has to be
> there...and it is...only once but that is sufficient.

Good, I see your point.

> The "c in a circle" is not needed if the word
> copyright is there. We substitute with '(C)' which is
> not the same but this is not material in this case, in

> fact, even the word copyright and date could be
> ommitted, because the CVS provides us with proof of
> creation of the work at a particular date. So I'm not
> worried legally.

Well, I do not think that copyright and date could be removed/omitted or we 
would not need to make all these copyright changes.

The CVS is an "external document", as far as I have understood (however I am 
not a lawyer), somebody could still claim that they did not find a copyright 
statement. 

>
(...)
>
> Now if we have to provide a symbol, we could
>
> http://copyrightauthority.com/copyright-symbol/
>
> I propose either the symbol directly '©' (with the aid
> of KCharSelect or in another way if someone can com up
> with a possibility) or by entering &copy; which will
> not display correctly. The '©' is an (extended) ASCII

No, that would be annoying for everybody, as it would force to open/save every 
single source file as UTF-8, which is currently not needed (only a few files 
need it.)

(There is no extended ASCII, ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 are byte-to-byte different 
outside ASCII, even if ISO-8859-1 is 1:1 inside Unicode. But UTF-8 codes it 
differently.)

> character -no extra font needed, so I think we can use

For Western Europe / Northern America only!

> it and that we do not have to replace it by something
> else or by (C).
>
(...)
>
> Marc

Have a nice day!

>
(...)

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