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

[Sander Vesik <sander_traveling yahoo co uk>]

 --- Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org> wrote: > 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
> :)
> 

Nah, it would probably have been reflecting the previous copyright. After all, Sun
would own the copyright on any previous versions of the program. Think of it as a
dual licence between GPL and a proprieatry licence. IIRC all solaris header files in
/usr/include have a similar copyright

> 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  *  Sun considers its source code as an unpublished, proprietary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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> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller <Uraeus linuxrising org>
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