"Svante Signell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 14:05 -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
Justin Pryzby wrote:
> Some argue
> that *.h, at least for libraries, have no creative content, or are
> only API, and thus not copyrightable, but it can't hurt.
If it has no creative content, you really should include a statement to
that
effect. "Written 2005 by Svante Signell; I consider this to have no
creative
content and to be in the public domain." Otherwise later people may
assume
that it does have creative content and that you screwed up and included a
file without copyright notices by accident....
I know I don't always follow best practices like this because it can be a
pain
to remember to, but it's a good idea.
Thank you all for your valuable comments. Should I incorporate the ideas
above for header files? Any recommendation about "GPLv2" vs "GPLv2 or
later", except for the one proposed: Don't use "or later" since these
licence contents are not yet published, hence currently unknown.
You can certainly choose to licence under v2 or later, and man people do. As
far as I know only two things can happen. A future version is more
restrictive, and somebody forks your code and add changes under only the
more restrictive licence. In some cases this could presumably be a bad
thing. The other possiblility is that a later version is much less
restrictive and allows sombody to use your code in proprietary software.
I would reccomend using the longer version of the statement, minus the 'or
later' clause if desired. The longer version makes it clear that warrenties
are disclamed, and how to get a copy of the terms of the GPL via snail mail.
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