Re: Copyright update

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Chernow <ac(at)esilo(dot)com>, Greg Stark <greg(dot)stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Copyright update
Date: 2009-01-01 20:16:32
Message-ID: 1230840992.28816.21.camel@jd-laptop.pragmaticzealot.org
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On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 14:47 -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Chernow wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > > Greg Stark wrote:
> > >> Is that actually legal if we haven't modified the files? Or is the
> > >> whole source tree considiered one work?
> > >
> > > One work, I assume.
> > >
> >
> > I am not a lawyer, but if its one work, why is there a notice in every source
> > file? ISTM that if it were one work there would only have to be one notice.
>
> Because people often take source files and copy them for use in other
> projects.

I think the correct resolution to the question is to ask legal. Yes?

Joshua D. Drake

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