Extending the licensing policy: BSD license for cmake files

Shaun Reich predator106 at gmail.com
Sun Sep 6 21:28:55 BST 2009


On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Parker Coates<parker.coates at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/6 Ingo Klöcker:
>> On Sunday 06 September 2009, Harri Porten wrote:
>>> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
>>> > How does repeating the term "Copyright", once spelled out and once
>>> > written as "(C)" (which is not acknowledged by the Copyright laws),
>>> > emphasize the copyright statement.
>>>
>>> Note I am talking about mortal readers rather than copyright laywers
>>> here.
>>>
>>> The symbol is well known and eye-catching. The word spells things out
>>> and provides a precise meaning. Whether it's redundant,
>>> not-acknowledged ascii-art or even void is one thing. Unless some
>>> laywers tell us that it *hurts* I wouldn't stop an author from
>>> decreasing the chance of someone overlooking the notice or being able
>>> able to claim so.
>>>
>>> > The circle C symbol is an alternative to spelling out the word
>>> > Copyright. Either one uses the symbol (as abbreviation) or one
>>> > uses "Copyright", but one never uses both in the same copyright
>>> > statement.
>>>
>>> How do you mean by "one never uses"? I have personally seen hundreds
>>> of copyright owners do so (grep your /usr/include for also recent
>>> samples) and won't challenge the prudence of laywers from Nokia,
>>> Apple and the like.
>>
>> I wasn't talking about source code, but about books. Hmm, forget it. In
>> books it does indeed seem to be common to write
>>  Copyright © <year> <author>
>>
>> So much for the difference between theory and practice. I guess I'll
>> stop advocating for omitting the (C). :-/
>
> The following seems to be the official stance of the FSF [1], which I
> think one can assume is a somewhat knowledgeable opinion.
>
> 'Always use the English word “Copyright”; by international convention,
> this is used worldwide, even for material in other languages. The
> copyright symbol “©” can be included if you wish (and your character
> set supports it), but it's not necessary. There is no legal
> significance to using the three-character sequence “(C)”, although it
> does no harm.'
>
> Parker
>
> [1] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-howto.html
>

What if someone *does* copy © the character into a source file, saves
it, and commits it to our repo.. is all of that possible?(where does
it fail?)

-- 
Innumerus Gratiae,
Shaun Reich




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