[Python-Dev] Copyright notices in modules (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson benjamin at python.org
Wed Jan 21 01:00:10 CET 2009

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> wrote:

[Terry Reedy]

Bottom line to me. The current notion of copyright does not work too well with evolving, loosely collective works (which eventually become 'folklore'). I'm at a loss of why the notice needs to be there at all. AFAICT, we've had tons of contributions from googlers and only one has put a Google copyright notice in the source.

Oh? Grepping through the source shows no less than 30 copyright notices from Google.

-- Regards, Benjamin

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