Re: Bug#710248: RFS: fitsverify/4.16 [ITP] -- FITS File Format-Verification Tool
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 02:38:08PM +0200, Thibaut Paumard wrote:
> I don't think the FTP master will let the package in with just this
> short notice (so short that I missed it despite looking for it).
>
> Maybe they would be OK if you reproduced said e-mail in full.
While the above is right...
> But the best would of course be to get upstream to just add a
> copyright notice at the beginning of each source file plus a copy of
> the applicable license and release a new tarball. It should be about
> 15 minutes of their time, well spent.
... this is just so wrong. The upstream will waste not just those 15
minutes, but also a couple of seconds every single time anyone opens a
source file. That quickly adds up, to hours that could be spent doing
productive work.
Let's not allow lawyers to govern our lives; copyright is an evil we already
have to spend massive amount of effort dealing with, let's not make it worse
than needed. If a single license file per [sub]project is enough, anything
more is a pure theft of time.
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