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[Rodney Sparapani]

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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