Dear Stephen,
In message <571ea99f.7030...@wwwdotorg.org> you wrote:
>
> BTW, while code re-org is not the most involved of coding, I don't see a
> reason to make developers decide legal issues such as what amounts to a
> change that's large enough to change the copyright date, or add a
> copyright header. The rule should be simple and unambiguous (edit a file
> -> change the copyright); anything else is asking for different people
> to argue over interpretation, which just everybody's wastes time. Let's
> leave that to lawyers and just deal with code.
There is no simple rule. Adding a copyright header means you claim
your (or your company's) copyright, i. e. you are referring to legal
rules, which ar inherently non-trivial. even more so, as this is a
multi-national project - even though nternation copyright laws are
pretty much similar worldwide (there are international treaties like
the Berne convention), there may still be differences.
One area where (to the best of my knowledge - IANAL) there appears to
be agreement is that you must meet some "Creativity Requirement" with
the work you created to make it copyrightable at all.
Moving two include lines around is not really creative, and I feel sad
that we have to go into such lengthy discussions here.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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