Re: [patch #4610] Consolidated documentation patch

[Charles Levert]

* On Monday 2005-11-14 at 00:06:40 +0100, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> Charles Levert wrote:
> > It just seems strange to have added things in
> > 2005, have them circulating around, but not be
> > able to claim a copyright privilege for them.
> 
> Things don't work that way.  Any creative work is automatically 
> covered by copyright, whether or not it contains a copyright 
> notice.  This is so in all countries that are party to the Berne 
> Convention, and most countries are.

That default I knew.  I guess there is still
some advantage in being explicit.


> And if these years really mattered, someone of the FSF would have 
> made a script by now to automatically put the correct years in the 
> right places.

As you surely already know, in practice, and in
the US even contrary to the spirit (if not the
letter) of the country's constitution, copyright
privileges are now forever (by way of repeated
duration extensions).  That may be one reason
for the years' diminish relevance.


> > > the other Unices?
> >
> > Unix is a beast.  Please.  Unixen.   :-)
> 
> Okay.  Let's get a sentence that needs this word into the 
> documentation.  :)

I'll see what I can do!