Re: Gcalctool copyright notices (was: GPager in gnome-utils).

[Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>]

hehe, ok so they (legal dep) allowed you to GPL something as long as you
put a copyright header into the program that directly contradicts the
GPL. Those funny legal deps. I just knew I should have become a lawyer
:)

Christian

On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 19:18, Rich Burridge wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> >> I was thinking of looking at something like gcalctool (thinking of
> >> improving my (fairly bad) hacking skills): although there's the GPL in a
> >> COPYING file, the top of each source code file looks like this:
> >> 
> >> /*  $Header: /cvs/gnome/gcalctool/gcalctool/calctool.c,v 1.15 2002/12/24
> >> 19:48:46 richb Exp $
> >>  *
> >>  *  Copyright (c) 1987-2002, Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights
> >> Reserved.
> >>  *  Sun considers its source code as an unpublished, proprietary
> >>  *  trade secret, and it is available only under strict license
> >>  *  provisions.  This copyright notice is placed here only to protect
> >>  *  Sun in the event the source is deemed a published work. 
> >> Dissassembly,
> >>  *  decompilation, or other means of reducing the object code to human
> >>  *  readable form is prohibited by the license agreement under which
> >>  *  this code is provided to the user or company in possession of this
> >>  *  copy.
> >
> > Ooops, I'm pretty sure that is completely unintentional ;) cc'ing Rich
> > for clarification ;)
> 
> That was the copyright message the Sun lawyers wanted in the source files
> when they allowed me to release the Sun OpenWindows DeskSet calculator
> (calctool) as open source. gcalctool is derived from that. gcalctool is
> released under a GPL license.
> 
> After discussing it with Andrew, I'll adjust to the appropriate copyright
> notices in each file as well.
> 
> Note also the gcalctool is undergoing some major revamping to try to
> address some of the concerns mentioned on this list last year. I'm
> working on the code right now, and will do a big putback in 2-3 days.
> Anybody interested in helping out with various things related to this
> please contact me.
> 
> I'd also like to work with the GNOME HCI folks and the PowersThatBe(TM) to
> make sure all their concerns are addressed by this revised version.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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