"Anthony W. Youngman" <debian@thewolery.demon.co.uk> writes:Basically he should put there "(c) Hubert" and "licence GPLv3+".Small nit (and all in my layman's understanding): Copyright notices, when they were required at all (most recently in the UCC), were never valid with “(c) Person Name”. That is, “(c)” doesn't mean “copyright”: Only “Copyright”, the abbreviation “Copr.”, or the copyright symbol “©” are any use as a way of legally indicating a copyright notice.
I was really meaning that the author SHOULD claim copyright...
"legally-meaningful" or not, if there's no claim of copyright by the owner, then it's a bugger if you want to use your Free Software rights - it makes it hard for you to exercise them because you can't be sure what they are!These days the UCC is essentially obsoleted by the Berne convention and copyright obtains with or without a valid notice; but if we request such notices, we should at least make them legally-meaningful.
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Cheers, Wol -- Anthony W. Youngman - anthony@thewolery.demon.co.uk