[Python-Dev] Copyright notices in modules

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Jan 21 01:00:10 CET 2009


On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:
> [Terry Reedy]
>>
>> Bottom line to me.  The current notion of copyright does not work too well
>> with evolving, loosely collective works (which eventually become
>> 'folklore').
>
> I'm at a loss of why the notice needs to be there at all.  AFAICT, we've
> had tons of contributions from googlers and only one has put a Google
> copyright notice in the source.

Oh? Grepping through the source shows no less than 30 copyright
notices from Google.



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Regards,
Benjamin


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