Re: [frogs] chord-name-engraver plus capo

[Graham Percival <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:06:26PM -0600, Carl Sorensen wrote:
> 
> On 8/30/10 6:08 PM, "Wols Lists" <antlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Is that legally proper?
> 
> According to the Berne Convention, a copyright notice is not even required
> in order to have copyright protection, so whatever we right there would be
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> legal.

Ouch, bad place for a homophone (which is a stricter term than
homonym).

> According to the gnu license how to
> <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl-howto.html>
> (which is the license we are using), the proper way is "If several people
> helped write the code, use all their names".

> > If somebody else alters it after I've submitted it, then be it upon
> > them, but my notice says I modified the file in 2010, and I own the
> > copyright to my additions. I don't want to claim any more than that.
> 
> No -- it would be a disaster trying to keep track in the header of which
> dates each user made modifications to the code.

Yes, especially since that information is readily available from
the git history.  That's why a number of people recommend against
having specific names in source code.  One project that follows
that advice is svn.


I've been waiting for almost a year before getting into this -- I
don't want to derail things before 2.14 is out.  Can we all
ignore it for another month or two?

Cheers,
- Graham

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