[Bf-committers] Visibility of attribution

Alex Fraser adfries at vpac.org
Tue Jun 21 06:07:27 CEST 2011


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen Swaney" <sswaney at centurytel.net>
> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:39:25AM +0000, Campbell Barton wrote:
> > In practice probably not much though it does mean if we want to add
> > some GPL exception like we did for the BGE or one day move to GPLv3,
> > copyright holders need to agree,
> 
> There is a good point. That would seem to be a deal-breaker, right
> there.

Copyright notices are a statement of fact. If you don't have them, the author still owns the code - you just don't know who they are.

Cheers,
Alex

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Alex Fraser
Software Engineer
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing


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