Re: [patch/copyright] lib/java.exp: update copyright years

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>]

Hi -


On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 06:19:52AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> [...]
> I'd suggest to think again.  As paranoiac as this looks at first
> glance, if the Linux kernel developers did something remotely
> paranoiac since day one, they wouldn't be facing the ridiculous SCO/MS
> lawsuits these days.  

I know you're being serious, but this seems to lack all sense of
proportion.  If you want to tag an FSF copyright on every little scrap of
text, go right ahead.  But why do experienced technical people believe
that adding or modifying comments like this, or reindenting a piece of
a file, should reasonably require all this mass of communication and
formality and process?  It doesn't make the work somehow more significant
in the grand scheme of things, only more tedious to filter out.


> They seem to understand this now (contributors are nowadays required
> to sign papers), [...]

I believe you misunderstand the new proposed process.


- FChE

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