Adding some initial copyright and licensing information based on MIT's GPL release of ITS

[36bit]

Adding some initial copyright and licensing information based on MIT's GPL release of ITS

[larsbrinkhoff]

Thanks!

I'm looking at how GNU Emacs does this for its documentation. The files in doc/emacs have a line

@c See file emacs.texi for copying conditions.

and emacs.texi has the full statement. I would be nice to have something similar for the SYSDOC files. There could be a SYSDOC; GPL 3 file to which other files refer.

[larsbrinkhoff]

doc/man/emacs.1.in starts with See section COPYING for copyright and redistribution information., and has the copyright statement last in the file.

[36bit]

Yes, the fundamental difference is having file-scope or centralized notices.

http://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2012/ManagingCopyrightInformation.html talks of it in the section "Comparing two systems: file-scope and centralized notices." Each has strengths and weaknesses as they describe.

I'll work on updating it to a more centralized method.

[larsbrinkhoff]

Great, thanks! For documentation, is good if you don't have to scroll through a page or two of legal text when you start reading.

[36bit]

Okay, it has been restructured into something more centralized now and is ready for your review.

[larsbrinkhoff]

Thanks, merged.