Re: GPLv3/L8R - How should the copyright notice look?

On 03/10/2010 10:09, Mats Lidell wrote: The joys of the copyright notice. There are two distinct things here; the copyright notice, and the software licence. There is no need to provide a copyright notice, as copyright is protected automatically (yes, it's more complicated than this). If you do provide a copyright notice then you only need to change the date if the content has substantially changed. (substantially changed - how much is "substantial"?) If we agree that XEmacs is a product of the US of A, then asking Mr. Google for pages on "us copyright notice" will provide enough information to make you feel a bit queezy. However, the general form with the three components is, "Copyright 2010 Robin Paterson". Please note, however, that copyright does not begin and end in the USA (it's actually Switzerland - Bern, in fact (yes, it's more complicated than this)). Software licence. You want to include a copy of the licence with the distribution - a link is not sufficient. A link is nice in addition to the distro copy, but isn't enough on its own. Did that help? Are painful details required? -R. PgDip CBES, PgDip SE, LL.M. (Strathclyde), PRINCE2 _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta