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On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:29, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
wrote:

> I see our copyright notice currently reads:
>
> $ perl5.39.4 -v
>
> This is perl 5, version 39, subversion 4 (v5.39.4) built for
> x86_64-linux
>
> Copyright 1987-2023, Larry Wall
>
> As Larry hasn't been around Perl 5 for quite some time now and we do
> have a lot of people, perhaps this should be amended to say
>
> Copyright 1987-2023, Larry Wall and others
>
> or somesuch?
>

This needs to be checked with the lawyers. The copyright *holder* need not
be the author of all the changes. We arent formal about copyright
assignment like the Gnu folks are, but I suspect there is an implied
assignment when you offer code to the project and it gets accepted.
Regardless, this is something that TPF needs to check into with the IP
lawyers they work with.

Yves

--
perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"

On 10/26/23 07:27, demerphq wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 12:29, Paul "LeoNerd" Evans
> <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk <mailto:leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>> wrote:
> [snip]
>
> As Larry hasn't been around Perl 5 for quite some time now and we do
> have a lot of people, perhaps this should be amended to say
>
>   Copyright 1987-2023, Larry Wall and others
>
> or somesuch?
>

That is the way copyright notices are written in many *.c and *.h files,
but ...
>
> This needs to be checked with the lawyers.  The copyright *holder* need
> not be the author of all the changes. We arent formal about copyright
> assignment like the Gnu folks are, but I suspect there is an implied
> assignment when you offer code to the project and it gets accepted.
> Regardless, this is something that TPF needs to check into with the IP
> lawyers they work with.
>

Yves is correct. This is something for TPF + lawyers to handle and will
just take up time on the mailing list.

On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:29:23 +0100
"Paul \"LeoNerd\" Evans" <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk> wrote:

> I see our copyright notice currently reads:
>
> $ perl5.39.4 -v
>
> This is perl 5, version 39, subversion 4 (v5.39.4) built for
> x86_64-linux
>
> Copyright 1987-2023, Larry Wall
>
> As Larry hasn't been around Perl 5 for quite some time now and we do
> have a lot of people, perhaps this should be amended to say
>
> Copyright 1987-2023, Larry Wall and others
>
> or somesuch?

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to the entities named in the copyright notices.