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Re: crip (lack of) copyright notice



On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 01:13:48AM -0800, Ryan Niebur wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 12:39:45AM -0800, Michael Crawford wrote:
>>>It says "by Charlton Harrison" and he documented when the releases
>>>were on his website. From that could I just construct a copyright
>>>notice and use that?
>>
>>My understanding is that "copyright descends on a work the instant it
>>is created."  So the release dates could reasonably serve to indicate
>>the copyright years.  But I don't have a clue as to whether it would
>>then be legal or appropriate for you to add an explicit notice.
>
>okay, I got it figured out now, thanks.

How did you figure it out? Did you make one up?

You must include a verbatim copyright notice.

See:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-pkgcopyright
http://lists.debian.org/debian-mentors/2003/08/msg00059.html

>>I Am Not A Lawyer But I Play One On The Internet.

Hmm, the line above is IANALBPOOTI :)

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