From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,cf2bc42267320085,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-16 16:14:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Copyright preambles in the sources Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 03:22:57 +0400 (MSD) Organization: h w c employees, b f Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1021590844 28495 137.194.161.2 (16 May 2002 23:14:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 23:14:04 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:24235 Date: 2002-05-17T03:22:57+04:00 Here was plenty of talk about the copyright issues from the user's viewpoint, but just now I faced a copyright issue as a developer, and need an advice or some explanation. I constantly see in various sources a "copyright preamble". Although I fully respect the author's rights to put any comments into the sources, I deeply distaste those "copyright preambles" inside each source file. Therefore I wish to avoid such a practice in my own sources. But being substantially foreing to the whole Copyright/Patent/Intellectual_Property world (because of Soviet background), I don't understand why those preambles are so widespreading. why they appear even in the obviously non-commercial packages. And I fear to violate a rule when I don't feel the reason for it -;) . So, why you, independent non-commercial developers, put the "copyright preambles" at the beginning of each file of the distributions? Is it a necessary thing? What dangers I invite if I do not include that preambles in each source file, but simply include a separate "copyright notice" file into the distribution? Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia