Re: GPL v3 survey site
Jerry James wrote:
> Do the FSF ChangeLogs have permission notices? I don't think
I've
> ever seen a permission notice in a ChangeLog.
No, their ChangeLogs don't have notices. My first impulse was to
exclude those files from consideration, but then I couldn't come up
with a reason why it would be okay to do that. If someone has a
plausible legal theory, I'm all ears.
Well, it would be silly really (not sure what the legal jargon for
silly is). But, since by design, ChangeLogs are a collection of
comments from multiple authors contributing source code to a single
directory, the license would have to accommodate all possible choices
of each entry. To a certain extent, the project as a whole has the
same issues, but it is on a file by file basis rather than line
by line.
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