From: Fabian Streitel <karottenreibe@...>
Date: 2009-09-04T03:42:29+09:00
Subject: Re: What licensing info is needed in code headers?

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same goes for Germany. The problem is AFAIK that the US have a very
different
copyright system than most (all?) European countries. (don't nail me on
anything here,
I'm not a lawyer...)

I can only speak for myself here, don't know what's good practice. I usually
only provide
the LICENSE file, but then again, I allow people to use the code
unconditonally anyways.
I'd say, if you have something that needs special protection (like you just
invented a working
AI with emotions in 200 lines of code), put it everywhere, just to be sure
;-). But when
it's just regular code: why bother too much?

2009/9/2 Eleanor McHugh <eleanor@games-with-brains.com>

> On 2 Sep 2009, at 17:44, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
>
> I can't comment for other jurisdictions, but in the UK you don't need to
> put anything in your source files. Copyright exists from the moment of
> creation regardless of whether it is claimed (although including the usual
> (c) copyright statement is always a good idea). Likewise if you license some
> of the rights attendant from copyright to a third party, you're under no
> compunction to explicitly do so in your source code.
>
> Setting aside those jurisdictional specifics, it's common practice amongst
> OSS developers to include the (c) copyright statement in individual source
> files along with a separate LICENSE file outlining the terms under which the
> source code is licensed.
>
>
> Ellie
>
> Eleanor McHugh
> Games With Brains
> http://slides.games-with-brains.net
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>
>

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