[development] Contributions: remove LICENSE.txt

Dries Buytaert dries.buytaert at gmail.com
Mon Oct 9 07:41:51 UTC 2006


On 09 Oct 2006, at 08:02, Gary Feldman wrote:
> From a legal perspective, this seems wrong.  The implication is  
> that the license only applies to the packaged bundles, and not to  
> source code downloaded directly from CVS.
> This wouldn't be an issue if each file had a copyright notice and a  
> reference to the license, which is the best solution.  In the  
> absence of such notices, the omission of the license from the CVS  
> package directory seems penny wise and pound foolish.  (The whole  
> issue of copyright ownership is another can of worms.  I suggest  
> checking the FAQ on why FSF requires that copyright ownership be  
> transferred to them for their projects, at http://www.gnu.org/ 
> licenses/gpl-faq.html#TOCAssignCopyright.  Drupal should be doing  
> the same.)

Also, we had this discussion several times before.  No need to  
discuss this over and over again.   Check the archives.  Thanks.

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