On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:03:43PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 05:20:29PM +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 08:40:00AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 06:24:25AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote: > > > > Every copyright notice means that there is at least a part copyrighted > > > > by the > > > > mentioned copyright holder. > > > > > > Every? > > > > Yes. > > > > > Like this one, that can be found in /bin/true on some systems? > > > > > > -------8<------ > > > # Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T > > > # All Rights Reserved > > > > > > # THIS IS UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE OF AT&T > > > # The copyright notice above does not evidence any > > > # actual or intended publication of such source code. > > > > > > #ident "@(#)cmd/true.sh 50.1" > > > -------8<------ > > > > > > (and the file had *no* other content) > > > > The copyright notice "Copyright (c) 1984 AT&T" in that file means that AT&T > > is > > copyright holder of at least part of that file. > > The presence of a copyright notice doesn't mean it is reflecting any > reality,
In general, correct copyright notice should reflect reality. > especially in generated files. Generated files may contain copyrighted parts. > In the above example, there > isn't even anything to copyright besides the copyright notice itself. Then you have found a copyright notice covering only the copyright notice itself. > If > you redirect gdb output to a file, it will contain a copyright notice > from the FSF. It doesn't mean the file is copyrighted by the FSF. This is an example of a program writing its copyright information to standard output. > > Quite similarly, it's not because you found copyright strings by > grepping an EPS that some content in the EPS is actually under that > copyright. The EPS may contain copyrighted parts. As Michael Wild wrote "contains postscript library code that is copyrighted by Adobe". > And even if there is content under that copyright, as someone > else said in the thread, it doesn't tell anything about the > corresponding license. I agree that a copyright notice does not say anything about the license. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120801182956.gh11...@master.debian.org
