[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Copyright notice

[Arien Malec <arien_malec@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All of this is clearly too much trouble for a small project like
> Freeciv to bother with.  My recommendation is that we change the
> copyright notices to state "Copyright $GREAT_DANES and others" with
> appropriate dates, and to continue to keep track of the people who
> submit patches.

I agree with all of what Gaute wrote (he is clearly more knowledgeable than I),
but one other point has gotten lost in the exchange here:

As we've recently seen w/ KIllustrator, should anyone decide that Freeciv
violates trademarks or copyrights, the $GREAT_DANES would be the most obvious
targets for fines, etc., and recognition due to them would end up backfiring a
bit..... OTOH, as Gaute writes, I'm not sure how acceptable the overhead of FSF
assignment would be for a small project like Freeciv, and I don't know of other
alternatives....

Arien

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