Re: Licensing Policy for existing files is?

On 05/17/2012 07:07 PM, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:

> all the files of kdesdk/poxml do not have a copyright header, see
> http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/poxml
>
> Now the reasoning is that after all there is a COPYING file in the toplevel
> dir of kdesdk, see http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdesdk/COPYING?view=markup
> so that one would then apply to the files in the subfolder automatically.
>
> Is that reasoning correct or flawed?

I don't think it's black or white, but if I were to guess, closer to 
flawed.  It's certainly safest to be explicit in cases like this, and 
indeed require
	"All source files must contain a copyright header which identifies the 
copyright holder(s) together with an e-mail address that can be used to 
reach the copyright holder."

here too moving forward.  Doing otherwise involves risks not worth taking.

-- rex