[Haskell-cafe] Copyright field vs. License file

[Alexander Batischev]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 10:16:24AM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> A notable exception are the GPL-licensed packages; these usually don’t
> have copyright information in the license.

JFTR: they put it into the source files. Into *each one*. Quoting "How
to use GNU licenses for your own software"[1]:

> Whichever license you plan to use, the process involves adding two
> elements to each source file of your program: a copyright notice (such
> as “Copyright 1999 Terry Jones”), and a statement of copying
> permission, saying that the program is distributed under the terms of
> the GNU General Public License (or the Lesser GPL).

Now that's what I'd call "hard to parse".

[1]: https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.html

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Alexander Batischev

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