[Python-Dev] Copyright notices in modules

Raymond Hettinger python at rcn.com
Wed Jan 21 00:36:44 CET 2009


[Terry Reedy]
> Bottom line to me.  The current notion of copyright does not work too 
> well with evolving, loosely collective works (which eventually become 
> 'folklore').

I'm at a loss of why the notice needs to be there at all.  AFAICT, we've
had tons of contributions from googlers and only one has put a Google 
copyright notice in the source.


Raymond


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