Names in source files (Was: Is Xfce copyrighted or free software)

[Jarno Suni]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:21:40 +0100
Stephan Arts <stephan at xfce.org> wrote:

> After all this time... you still don't understand that there is no
> problem that requires a solution in the first place.
> 
> Forget it, thousands of applications have been written and released
> under the GPL. Hundreds of lawyers have looked at the GPL, including
> the nazgul of IBM. I think we can conclude that there is no problem,
> so it does not need fixing. If anything is unclear, go to the FSF and
> stop bothering us with it.

I have never claimed that GPL is be bad license for Xfce source code.
I just want to point out that listing all copyright owners in source
files is unnecessary and might be unpractical.

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