On 08/06/2008, Stefan Potyra wrote: > > | OpenAL Soft is copright (C) 1999-2008 by the OpenAL team > > > > which is legally void (and possibly will cause a REJECT). > > OOI, how do you come to that conclusion/what is wrong with this in the > first place? The only valid “keywords” are “Copyright”, “Copr.”, and “©”. “(C)” is legally void, “copright” is typo'd, thus legally void as well. See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright>, in the “Copyright notices in the U.S.” paragraph: | Prior to 1989, use of a copyright notice — consisting of the copyright | symbol (©, the letter C inside a circle), the abbreviation "Copr.", or | the word "Copyright", followed by the year of the first publication of | the work and the name of the copyright holder — was part of United | States statutory requirements.[4][5] Several years may be noted if the | work has gone through substantial revisions. The proper copyright notice | for sound recordings of musical or other audio works is a sound | recording copyright symbol (℗, the letter P inside a circle), which | indicates a sound recording copyright. Similarly, the phrase All rights | reserved was once required to assert copyright. | | In 1989, the U.S. enacted the Berne Convention Implementation Act, | amending the 1976 Copyright Act to conform to most of the provisions of | the Berne Convention. As a result, the use of copyright notices has | become optional to claim copyright, because the Berne Convention makes | copyright automatic.[6] However, the lack of notice of copyright using | these marks may have consequences in terms of reduced damages in an | infringement lawsuit — using notices of this form may reduce the | likelihood of a defense of "innocent infringement" being successful. Don't forget ftp-master in hosted on US soil, etc., so be safe and write proper debian/copyright files. Mraw, KiBi.
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