Re: Copyright holders email addresses

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Jaison Lee wrote:
>Now, there are at LEAST several hundred files in the kde codebase that
>have a header that references an AUTHORS file. Is this sufficiently
>compliant for the policy?
>
>Example from a random file:
>    Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 KJSEmbed Authors
>    See included AUTHORS file.
>
>It should be noted that the policy allows the license itself to
>reference an external document, so there is precedent to OK the use of
>an AUTHORS file.

Referring to an external file is ok.

Assigning copyright to a non-existing and vague entity like "The KJSEmbed=20
Authors" is not. The names of the copyright holders have to be clearly=20
stated for all files or collections of files for which the copyright=20
applies.

I cannot give you a legally-valid equivalent of "other trademarks are=20
owned by their respective owners" that we see on press releases for=20
copyrights. Maybe someone else knows a wording for that.

Until such time, don't invent anything and place the names of the=20
copyright holders in the source file.
=2D-=20
Thiago Macieira  -  thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
  thiago.macieira (AT) trolltech.com     Trolltech AS
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