[Amarok] Year += 1. It's 2010, time flies :)

Jeff Mitchell mitchell at kde.org
Thu Jan 7 22:41:00 CET 2010


On 01/07/2010 04:38 PM, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Thursday 07 January 2010 21:14:40 Andrew Ash wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Téo Mrnjavac <teo at getamarok.com> wrote:
>>> Could we use the © copyright character here instead?
>>
>> I'm not sure how much Amarok follows the KDE Licensing Policy [1], but
>> there was a recent blog post [2] that popped up on Planet KDE about
>> the best way to do licensing statements, which had several
>> suggestions:
> 
> That's important for the licence headers in the files, but it's the About 
> dialog that's been changed here (which the licensing policy doesn't apply to 
> anyway).
> 
> The statement that Amarok is copyright "The Amarok Development Squad" is 
> meaningless legally, but kind of informative for your average human being - it 
> at least gives people a general idea of where the copyright lies.  So I think 
> it's fine in an About dialog, since the real information is available in the 
> source code.

+1


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