[Kde-games-devel] Copyright notices

Parker Coates parker.coates at gmail.com
Tue Feb 10 16:29:03 CET 2009


On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:11, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 10.02.09 05:33:16, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
>> And btw, is it ok to replace the copyright headers in source files if the
>> license and the names are kept the same? (e.g. if the current header takes too
>> much space due to many empty lines?)
>
> The format is not important, just the content.

Speaking of content. It seems the copyright headers I'm using in
Killbots have a non-standard last paragraph. Looking around it seems
that some files use:

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
02110-1301  USA

while others use:

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

In Killbots I ended up with a merged version:

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>
    or write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street,
    Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301, USA.

I don't think I made this up myself, but I can't find where I borrowed
it from originally.

Is this kind of deviation a reason for concern?

Parker


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