Guido van Rossum wrote:
2009/1/20 Raymond Hettinger <pyt...@rcn.com>:
I'm at a loss of why the notice needs to be there at all.
There's a difference between contributing a whole file and
contributing a patch. Patches do not require copyright notices. Whole
files do. This is not affected by later edits to the file.
In my comment, I postulated the situation where the patch consisted of
merging in another, independently copyrighted, 'whole file'. Perhaps
this has mostly been a non-existent situation and therefor moot.
One real situation I was thinking of, unconnected to Google as far as I
am aware, is the case of two third-party IP6 modules and the suggestion
that they be merged into one stdlib module. If that were accomplished
by committing one and merging the other in a patch, it would be unfair
(and untrue) to have just one copyright notice. Of course, in this
case, I hope the two authors work everything out between themselves
first before any submission.
I completely understand about strongly preferring programming to lawyer
consultation ;-).
tjr
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