From: "Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)" <shot@...>
Date: 2009-09-11T00:43:49+09:00
Subject: Re: What licensing info is needed in code headers?

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Jeremy Hinegardner:

> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 01:44:58AM +0900, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:

>> I like my code as clean as possible, and so I=E2=80=99d love to have my =
code to
>> have as little cruft as possible. Given that I say in the README file
>> that the code is licensed under a given licence (located in the LICENCE
>> file), do I have to add licensing info to each and every file anyway?
>> If so, what=E2=80=99s the shortest info I can add to make sure that a gi=
ven file
>> is covered by the licence?

> The GNU GPL howto explains the "proper" way to use the GPL in your
> program's source code. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

> The 3rd through 7th paragraphs are probably a good
> procedure to follow for whatever license you choose.

Thanks, everybody, for chiming in, and thansk especially to you, Jeremy,
for providing the GNU link above. I think I can sum up the discussion
for my own purposes like this:

=E2=80=94 every piece of code is copyrighted by default, so there=E2=80=99s=
 no need to
  explicitely copyright it: a comment-less code is as safe as any other;
=E2=80=94 if one wants to popularise the code, explicit copyright info (ide=
ally
  accompanied with a way to contact the copyright holder) is the first
  step to take;
=E2=80=94 the next step is to explicitely point out the licence in use;
=E2=80=94 the last one is to add the three-paragraph copying
  permission from the GPL howto linked above.

As I doubt my code will be useful to anyone, I think I=E2=80=99ll either st=
ick
to comment-less files or add copyright+licensing info, but without the
copying permission (which I agree will be helpful if ever my code gets
any kind of traction =E2=80=93 and I=E2=80=99ll happily add it then).

=E2=80=94 Shot
--=20
who let the logs out? [kodz]

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