José Abílio Oliveira Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Why not to replace "Read the file COPYING" with the following?
I kindo like this too, but it is a farily large blurb. (I do not buy any size arguments as in bits and bytes) | * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or | * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License | * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 | * of the License, or (at your option) any later version. | * | * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | * GNU General Public License for more details. | * | * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software | * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. | | I would add this for most of the files whose license is GPL, we have some | files that are in the public domain. Oh, we can just take owership of public domain and release them as GPL. (or isn't that allowed? on another note: Public domain is not legal in norway since you cannot give up your copyright) -- Lgb