[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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