Re: [HACKERS] Copyright

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Don Baccus wrote:

> It doesn't identify which portions.  Nor does the original statement
> by UC.  The reality is that no one could necessarily claim that any
> contribution you make is part of the "portions".

And, as the wu-ftpd distribution has always done, there is *nothing* to
stop someone working in 'heapam.c' from adding a personal 'Portions
Copyright(c) 1999 by Bruce Momjian' ... we put a 'blanket copyright on' to
provide a 'general cover', but there is nothing from stopping ppl from
adding more specific ones for the work they do:

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/****************************************************************************    Copyright (c) 1999 WU-FTPD Development
Group.  All rights reserved.  Portions Copyright (c) 1980, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994    The Regents of
theUniversity of California. Portions Copyright (c) 1993, 1994 Washington University in Saint Louis.  Portions
Copyright(c) 1996, 1998 Berkeley Software Design, Inc.  Portions Copyright (c) 1989 Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. Portions Copyright (c) 1998 Sendmail, Inc.  Portions Copyright (c) 1983, 1995, 1996, 1997 Eric P.  Allman.
PortionsCopyright (c) 1997 by Stan Barber.  Portions Copyright (c) 1997 by Kent Landfield.  Portions Copyright (c)
1991,1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997    Free Software Foundation, Inc.   
 
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Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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