[Sugar-devel] Copyright notices

[James Cameron]

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 07:58:28PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:28 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
> > The GPL has a section on how to apply the license to a program, and
> > it describes placing a summary of the license in the source.
> 
> I'll ask the FSF licensing lawyer if there's an actual legal reason to
> do so or if it's just excess safety.

Last thing I'd want to tell developers is "don't do what they say in
that section of the GPL explanatory text".  ;-}  Complicates situation.

> I'm not too keen on displaying the full text of the GPL, though.

The GPL does indicate the minimum text to be displayed, it is only a few
lines, and I think that is sufficient.  We have the full license
available in the control panel.  But do we have translations for the
minimum text?

> Anyway, if there's some consensus on the basic idea of an About
> function for activities, I could work on a patch in my spare time.

I still can't figure out how to achieve consensus decision making in the
absence of a meeting or a membership list.  ;-)

-- 
James Cameron
http://quozl.linux.org.au/