[MERGE] Copyright cleanup

Ben Finney bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au
Mon Oct 16 04:22:45 BST 2006


John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> writes:

> 1) The big motivation for this is not to shut out the community, but
> just to clean up all of the invalid copyright statements.

Which is in fact much more *friendly* to the community; ambiguity in
copyright status is one of the constant big headaches for free
software.

> Just to reiterate, this is a community project, and it is meant to
> stay that way. Core bzr code is copyright Canonical for legal
> reasons, and the tests are just there to help us maintain that.

Thanks for making this clear. Efforts to clarify copyright status are,
in the main, a big benefit to free software; thank you for doing so.

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Ben Finney





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