Hi,
--- Mike Nordell tamlin@algonet.se wrote:
You might get the idea "but what abut the ROS foundation?!". Indeed, what about it. If the foundation's views and interest in upholding the copyright does not 100% correlate to my view and interest (in ways) to uphold the copyright, that's also a dead end.
Well its opt in. If you want the foundation to have copyright for the source files you write I can draw up copyright assignment paperwork. I would much rather each author retain rights to their own code making it harder on Microsoft by having to take more people to court.
These I however do agree with. Removing the very large GPL header from all files is IMO a noble goal (it's sometimes larger, in bytes, than the code itself). But then, that's exactly what Alex proposed.
A simple solution is to include something like the following like the FSD recommends.
Copyright (C) yyyy name of author(s)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
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