[Fontconfig] [PATCH] Update COPYING with more notices from source files
Behdad Esfahbod
behdad at behdad.org
Wed Nov 10 12:54:13 PST 2010
On 11/10/10 15:48, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
>> Humm, I'd rather we just replace "KEITH PACKARD" with "THE AUTHOR(S)" instead
>> of copying the notice for each individual right owner.
>
> I would too, but I believe you need to get all those who are listed as
> copyright holders under the old license forms to agree to the (nearly trivial)
> relicensing. (I still need to talk to X.Org's lawyers about how we should
> handle pretty much the same issue, but with a much wider range of license notice
> forms and copyright holders.)
Ugly. I'd just leave it as is. There's no practical purpose that copying
that notice 10 times would serve really.
behdad
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