Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

[Barry Margolin]

In article <458359d4@212.67.96.135>,
 "Dave (from the UK)" 
 <see-my-signature@southminster-branch-line.org.uk> wrote:

> Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> > Of course you should leave the original copyright notices in place. 
> 
> That I was not so sure about.

This is NOT a GPL requirement, just a nice thing to do.

> > You
> > don't want to create the impression you wrote the code, do you?
> 
> No I don't.
> 
> Likewise I don't want to give the impressions that the original author 
> is responsible for bugs that I may have intoduced.

Since the program will also contain your own copyright notice, there's 
no reason for someone to assume that your bugs come from him, or vice 
versa.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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