[En-Nut-Discussion] RFC: Copyright of trivial code

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Fri Mar 18 19:20:25 CET 2011


Hi Bernd,

On 3/18/2011 11:32 AM, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 09:47:00AM +0100, Harald Kipp wrote:
>> there are several simple files, for which a copyright notice looks
>> overdone to me, specifically header and make files.
> You can't disclaim a copyright and you don't need to declare it
> to have a copyright.

I overlooked, that this differs from place to place, as Nathan explained.


> Do you have problems with any specific files?

All Make* files in the first place and simple header files like 
include/net/if_types.h or include/compiler.h.

I already did that in this project
http://leanloader.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/leanloader/trunk/target/

Perhaps that wasn't a good idea...

Regards,

Harald



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