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Re: RFS: Thousand Parsec packages.



* Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam@benfinney.id.au> [2008-01-30 16:01:07 +1100]:

> Barry deFreese <bddebian@comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > On of the big things I need to know about are the copyright files.
> > Upstream doesn't specify any years for Copyright that I can find.
> 
> Copyright notices are only valid if they contain all three of:
> 
>   * The word "Copyright" and/or the copyright symbol "©"
>   * The year(s) the copyright began in the work
>   * The name of the legal entity that holds the copyright

Valid in what sense? Since copyright is automatic under the Berne
Convention (so far as I understand), the copyright holder would still
retain their rights even if no copyright notice existed, so is a strict
formal copyright notice still required by anything?
-- 
mithrandi, i Ainil en-Balandor, a faer Ambar

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