-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 20/11/12 04:26 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Anthony G Basile wrote: > >> The other levels are files and projects. So this leads to the >> other confusion, do you touch every file in the project when >> forking etc. > >> The answer appears to be that a file is the unit, but from >> practice I've seen all three. What is correct is what passes in >> the courts and I do not want to, nor have I ever, tested that. >> [...] > > The FSF appears to take the standpoint that the project as a whole > is the unit. In their "Information for maintainers of GNU software" > [1] there is the following paragraph: > > | To update the list of year numbers, add each year in which you > have | made nontrivial changes to the package. [...] When you add > the new | year, it is not required to keep track of which files > have seen | significant changes in the new year and which have not. > It is | recommended and simpler to add the new year to all files in > the | package, and be done with it for the rest of the year. > > I've also found [2] which says that the above is based on legal > advice from Eben Moglen. > > Ulrich > > [1] > <http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/gnustandards/maintain.texi?root=gnustandards&view=markup> > > [2] <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-12/msg00327.html> >
I did a quick scan; it seems though that this relates to updating the scope of a copyright that someone already holds? IE, not necessarily relating to the transfer of copyright.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlCriGMACgkQ2ugaI38ACPCJXgEAkQK/EIYoqGWFOhy1tz0Di2zY eV/Gg3w698Qz7f4iZygA/1hfBqd2vcVTyG2gaBw0G+/NnRjZkC6Ob/Njsivi5ZBv =msje -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
