[GHC] #740: Copyright information is wrong in some GHC source files

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#740: Copyright information is wrong in some GHC source files
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 Reporter:  guest    |          Owner:         
     Type:  bug      |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  lowest   |      Milestone:  _|_    
Component:  Prelude  |        Version:  6.4.1  
 Severity:  trivial  |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:           |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:  N/A      |   Architecture:  Unknown
       Os:  Unknown  |  
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Comment (by Isaac Dupree):

 no, that's only the usual model for FSF and proprietary GPL'd software.
 Most open-source software doesn't require copyright assignment, they just
 implicitly (though stated somewhere) require releasing contributions under
 the same license.  (This is trivial for licenses like GPL that don't allow
 releasing changes in any other way.)  Also the BSD-style license that GHC
 uses is pretty much liberal enough for everyone, GPL and proprietary
 people, so there probably will never be a need/desire to track down all
 contributors.

 It's still good bookkeeping to list the actual copyright owners, and
 possibly useful if we ever want to sue someone for violating the terms of
 the BSD license (unlikely though that seems)

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/740#comment:5>
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