[GRASS5] Jan's copyright notice ++

James Cameron quozl at us.netrek.org
Tue Nov 14 00:25:26 EST 2000


On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 09:01:58PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> Looks okay except, shouldn't the LICENSE part be spelled out more?  GPL
> may not be specific enough and shouldn't it give the address for the
> Free Software Foundation in case the license is missing.  

Yes, I agree.  The GPL instructions do yield a large header, but they
are worth it from the legal standpoint, being careful to identify the
license sufficiently.

>     <one line to give the program's name and a brief idea of what it does.>
>     [...]
>     Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

I say put it all in.  gzip should tokenise it nicely on a multiple file
transfer using CVS or .tar.gz

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James Cameron    mailto:quozl at us.netrek.org     http://quozl.netrek.org/

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