Re: copyright holders

[Sorry for the double post]

Willi Mann schrieb:

> Actually, it's the other way round. First, you need to assert copyright,
> then you can put the work under some license. This requires a proper
> copyright notice.
>
> So the problem is that most logwatch scripts don't contain a copyright
> notice at all, but are non-trivial enough that copyright forcefully
> applies. As no copyright notice is included, they can't be licensed
> under any license.

I should say here that the main issue is that a missing copyright notice
questions whether the contributor agreed to the licensing terms, and
that's why it's a good idea to either include the license in each source
file or at least a notice that indicates which license applies.

Willi