From: Robert Dewar <dewar@adacore.com>
To: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>,
veenu khanna <veenu_khanna@yahoo.com>,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB Stub & GPL question
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C1B66A.3010909@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0702010531210.1722@rtl14.hofr.at>
Nicholas Mc Guire wrote:
> Never the less it would make sense to change these boilerplates if they
> do not provide any legally relevant information as they do lead to
> confusion when read by some people (me atleast).
Absolutely, it is appropriate that headers be right. Even if copyright
notices are no longer a legal requirement, they should be present and
correct (and the copyright office thinks they may be relevant in an
"innocent infringement" defense which might mitigate damages, see
http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-01 9:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-31 15:02 veenu khanna
2007-01-31 15:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-31 19:10 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2007-01-31 19:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-01 1:12 ` Robert Dewar
2007-02-01 5:26 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2007-02-01 9:44 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2007-02-01 22:51 ` Mark Kettenis
2007-02-09 15:21 veenu khanna
2007-02-09 15:34 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-09 15:35 ` Paul Koning
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