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Re: Why do we list individual copyright holders?



On 12/19/2017 03:41 PM, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Felipe Sateler (2017-12-19 14:20:42)
>> Sometimes the license requires listing the copyright holders. In those 
>> cases, the list of holders must be present in the copyright file. In 
>> the rest, there is no need to list them. Only the license matters.
>>
>> .oO( should the copyright file be renamed to license to avoid this
>>      eternal discussion? )
> 
> Tracking copyright holders is an essential prerequisite for tracking 
> licensing, because only a license granted by the copyright holder(s) of 
> a work is of any use to us (and our users).

What if the author is anonymous then?


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