Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:37:07PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Yes we do. *SQUEEEAK* Ah well. john -- "Take the ideas you find useful. Try not to get hung up on the labels." - Jonathan S. Shapiro

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:21:39PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: | | > "Full author contact details available in file CREDITS" | | Do we really need that line everywhere ? People aren't morons | ... Stop those piggish sounds. Yes we do. --

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:21:39PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > "Full author contact details available in file CREDITS" Do we really need that line everywhere ? People aren't morons ... regards john -- "Take the ideas you find useful. Try not to get hung up on the labels." - Jon

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:47 pm, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:58 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | // This file is part of LyX, the document processor. > > | // Licence details can be found in the file COPYING. > > | > > | I think that that cuts it don't you? At

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:58 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | // This file is part of LyX, the document processor. > | // Licence details can be found in the file COPYING. > | > | I think that that cuts it don't you? At least it describes /why/ anyone > | would want to read COPYING. > > Ye

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:50 pm, John Levon wrote: | > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:24:53PM +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: | > > This note can be anywhere in the file, the most usual options are begin | > > and end. Also you should note

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | btw, the blurb you show is wrong - we grant additional rights. Not that again... -- Lgb

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:50 pm, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:24:53PM +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > > This note can be anywhere in the file, the most usual options are begin > > and end. Also you should note that this is standard. > > That's how I navigate. I

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 01:24:53PM +0100, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > This note can be anywhere in the file, the most usual options are begin and > end. Also you should note that this is standard. That's how I navigate. If this yuck gets done I suppose I shall have to teach vim how to

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:38 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > On occasion it might be nice to do as other gpl projects too... | | You mean like using politically correct GUI toolkits ? And we are now, aren't we? (if we only could get the g

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:59:18PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > This file is part of LyX, the document processor. > It is GPL-ed code. Not true. Like I said, you'll need lines and lines. > See the file COPYING This is more than enough (i.e. what we have already) /** * \fi

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread John Levon
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 04:22:23PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > So that a file taken out of context (i.e. lyx) still has the license > information. Please tell me you don't want 30 lines of license information in every file like Mozilla or something. The rreference to COPYING is fine. r

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:38 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > On occasion it might be nice to do as other gpl projects too... You mean like using politically correct GUI toolkits ?

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:22 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:12 pm, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: | > | > On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:00, Lars Gullik Bjønn

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:22 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:12 pm, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > | > On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:00, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | > > Hmm da hmm I have some counters s

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:12 pm, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: | > On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:00, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > > Hmm da hmm I have some counters stuff to look at first, | > > but after that... please somebody beat me to

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:00, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | > Hmm da hmm I have some counters stuff to look at first, | > but after that... please somebody beat me to it... | | Should we replace the COPYING reference with the e

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 3:12 pm, José Abílio Oliveira Matos wrote: > On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:00, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > Hmm da hmm I have some counters stuff to look at first, > > but after that... please somebody beat me to it... > > Should we replace the COPYING referenc

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 05 September 2002 15:00, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > Hmm da hmm I have some counters stuff to look at first, > but after that... please somebody beat me to it... Should we replace the COPYING reference with the explicit note? -- José Abílio

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Ok, I've "done" all files in the src/graphics, src/frontends/controllers and | src/frontends/xforms dirs. That includes moving all old style headers to the | new style. (I think.) Ok, thanks. | I added an "author unknown" entry to any file that did

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
Ok, I've "done" all files in the src/graphics, src/frontends/controllers and src/frontends/xforms dirs. That includes moving all old style headers to the new style. (I think.) I added an "author unknown" entry to any file that did not have an author listed. I reckon that I've "done my bit" on

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Since that is your code I think that you can, that change doesn't apply to | older versions. I cannot give up rights. -- Lgb

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:30, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Why not to replace "Read the file COPYING" with the following? > > I kindo like this too, but it is a farily large blurb. > (I do not buy any size arguments as in bits and bytes) This note can be anywhere in the file, the mos

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Why not to replace "Read the file COPYING" with the following? I kindo like this too, but it is a farily large blurb. (I do not buy any size arguments as in bits and bytes) | * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Angus Leeming
On Thursday 05 September 2002 8:08 am, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | Just so I'm perfectly clear: > | > | /* > | * \file PreviewLoader.C > | * Read the file COPYING > | * > | * \author Angus Leeming > | * > | * Full author contact details available in file CREDITS > | */ The script bel

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread José Abílio Oliveira Matos
On Thursday 05 September 2002 08:18, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > You know, this style: > > /* > * \file GraphicsCache.C > * Copyright 2002 the LyX Team > * Read the file COPYING > * > * \author Baruch Even <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * \author Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > */ > > or a mod

Re: On copyright

2002-09-05 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:35:51AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > but it is a lot easier to remember to add self to the top of the very | > same file you are editing, instead of CREDITS or MAINTAIERS... | | But if you have to change it, it is ea

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:29:04PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > "Copyright The LyX Team." | > | > As there is no real entity with this name. | > | > I would suggest that from now on, that everybody that does some | > substantial¹ work on

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 08:35:51AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > but it is a lot easier to remember to add self to the top of the very > same file you are editing, instead of CREDITS or MAINTAIERS... But if you have to change it, it is easier to do in a single place, and its showing "lower

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 5 Sep 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [...] | > | Centralising the email addresses etc. in CREDITS means we don't have | > | patches that touch heaps of files like Angus committed recently when | > | he cha

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Andre Poenitz
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:29:04PM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > "Copyright The LyX Team." > > As there is no real entity with this name. > > I would suggest that from now on, that everybody that does some > substantial¹ work on a file, also add themselves to the copyright > clause in

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Allan Rae
On 5 Sep 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > | Centralising the email addresses etc. in CREDITS means we don't have > | patches that touch heaps of files like Angus committed recently when > | he changed his email address. Instead his script could jus

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Allan Rae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 4 Sep 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | | > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | [...] | > | Fair point. So your preferred heading is | > | | > | /* | > | * \file PreviewLoader.C | > | * Read the file COPYING | > | * | > | * \author Angus

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Allan Rae
On 4 Sep 2002, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > | Fair point. So your preferred heading is > | > | /* > | * \file PreviewLoader.C > | * Read the file COPYING > | * > | * \author Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | */ > | > | I believe that we

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Dr. Richard E. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:05:23PM +0100, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:29 pm, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: > > I belive that we have done ourselves a bad favour by use the > > "Copyright The LyX Team." > > As there is no real entity with this name. > I believe we h

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:49 pm, Angus Leeming wrote: | | > Would you like me to run this little shell script over LyX's .[Ch] files? | > | > #! /bin/sh | > | > for FILE in $* | > do | > DIR=`dirname ${FILE}` | > BASE=`basename $1` | >

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:41 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > | All that is important is that the | > | authorship is apparent. So our lines | > | \author Lars Gullik Bjønnes | > | \author Angus Leeming | > | are sufficient statements of co

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:49 pm, Angus Leeming wrote: > Would you like me to run this little shell script over LyX's .[Ch] files? > > #! /bin/sh > > for FILE in $* > do > DIR=`dirname ${FILE}` > BASE=`basename $1` > TMP=${DIR}/${BASE}.tmp > sed -e '/the LyX Team/d'

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:27 pm, Angus Leeming wrote: > On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:41 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > > | All that is important is that the > > | authorship is apparent. So our lines > > | \author Lars Gullik Bjønnes > > | \author Angus Leeming > > | are sufficien

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:41 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > | All that is important is that the > | authorship is apparent. So our lines > | \author Lars Gullik Bjønnes > | \author Angus Leeming > | are sufficient statements of copyright. > > Yes, but that information is missing n

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Lars Gullik Bjønnes
Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:29 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: | > I belive that we have done ourselves a bad favour by use the | > | > "Copyright The LyX Team." | > | > As there is no real entity with this name. | > | > I would suggest that fr

Re: On copyright

2002-09-04 Thread Angus Leeming
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 6:29 pm, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > I belive that we have done ourselves a bad favour by use the > > "Copyright The LyX Team." > > As there is no real entity with this name. > > I would suggest that from now on, that everybody that does some > substantial¹ wor