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> On Jan 30, 2017, at 12:30 PM, Mark Atwood <fallenpega...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That's... complicated. > > We don't need to have a notice attached to every file, because there is a > copyright notice attached to the project as a whole, and there is a notice > attached to each repo. Individual files generally don't each need their own > notice, since individual files generally no longer get "detached" from a > project or tree. > > But, if you were to copy in a substantial amount of text from another source, > you should make sure that the copyright from that source is properly > declared, right next to the text pulled in. > > Also, however, documentation is a bit unusual in that it is much more likely > to be detached and separately distributed from the rest of the project. We > should make sure that if the documentation is ever printed out, or is > separately displayed on sites like man7.org, that a copyright notice should > be readable. > > ..m > >> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 1:55 AM Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net> wrote: >> >> fallenpega...@gmail.com said: >> > Right now our standard copyright text is "Copyright >> > $YEAR_YOU_ARE_WRITING_THI >> > S by the NTP Project contributors" >> >> Should the documentation files have a copyright notice? >> >> >> -- >> These are my opinions. I hate spam. >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@ntpsec.org > http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
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