Copyright statement in source code - was Re: [GRASS-dev] Incorrect stuff coming through stderr?

[Hamish]

Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> It is needed to check 'description.html' for the first author which
> doesn't appear in the CVS Changelog in case the module is older
> than 31 Dec. 1999 (the day when we started to maintain the code in
> CVS). Better to always check 'description.html'.

btw, if anyone isn't familiar with it, the web interface to the CVS is
great for following development history over the last 6.5 years:

http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/#dirlist

Can we arbitrarily add GPL notices to [public domain] code from pre-GPL
versions of GRASS? (I guess so, we can do whatever we want with it....)


Hamish