On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:21:39 +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > In libmoosex-param-perl d/changelog, gregor herrmann wrote: :) > > > - d/copyright: I don't see a need for the "Berne convention" comment > > > in this case, since we have a clear copyrist statement in bot README > > > and lib/MooseX/Param.pm; and: since this statement says "2007 > > > Infinity...", I don't see how Stevan Little could be a copyright > > > holder, so I'd remeove him from the Copyright line. > > I thought to add that because while the copyright statement in the > > module does use the company name, 'Steven Little' is listed in that same > > module as the Author which makes it a little ambiguous to me. Is it > > that when there is a clear copyright statement, only that is needed? In general, I'd say yes, because ... > Licensing requires copyright holder(s) to grant it, but being an author > does not automatically make you a copyright holder, as I understand it. ... e.g. when someone writes code as an employee during worktime, the copyright holder is usually the company/employer. (That was my assumption in this case, and we also have quite a few other examples for this situation.) Cheers, gregor -- .''`. Homepage: http://info.comodo.priv.at/ - OpenPGP key 0xBB3A68018649AA06 : :' : Debian GNU/Linux user, admin, and developer - http://www.debian.org/ `. `' Member of VIBE!AT & SPI, fellow of the Free Software Foundation Europe `- NP: Rolling Stones
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