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

[Auke Kok]

Jarno Suni wrote:
> 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.


It's very useful. How else can you inform the copyright holder of a 
(GPL) violation, if you can't identify the copyright holder?


Auke