From: Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T01:54:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Request for advice on applying a license

James Edward Gray II, May 12:

> On May 12, 2005, at 9:16 AM, Christian Neukirchen wrote:

> > IANAL, but isn't the file copyrighted automatically due to the Berne
> > Convention?

> Yes, I believe that's true.  But it's still probably good practice to  
> apply a notice, I think.

Well, it���s _copyrighted_ without question.  Anything I create, I own.
That���s not the question, though��.  The question is how I apply a license
to something that I have a copyright on.  The copyright gives me more or
less exclusive right to whatever���s copyrighted.  The point of a license
is to state what rights to the material that I give other people.  So
the question remains, what exactly do I need to do to ensure license
coverage of a set of files?  My hope is that I don���t have to go the GNU
way of including a license notice in every file I want included, but
instead only those that will be covered by a different license, if any,
thus having a project-wide default license, e.g., in a LICENSE or
COPYING file in the project root directory.  This is how the Linux
kernel code does it, so my guess is that it���s perfectly safe in every
way, but I was wondering if anyone knew otherwise,
        nikolai

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