Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle copyright on LibreOffice ?

On 10/08/2010 02:37 PM, Charles Marcus wrote:

> > Copyright © 2000, 2010
> > Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
> > Don't think it's  correct, is it?

> Its the very first beta being offered, it was inevitable some things wo
uld be missed...

> Unless - maybe legally the copyrights have to stay (hope not)?

Technically, it needs to read

<< Copyright © 1999 StarOffice GmHz;
Copyright © 2000 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2001 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2002 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2003 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2004 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2005 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2006 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2007 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2008 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2009 Sun INC,
Copyright © 2010 Oracle INC, Document Foundation, Novell Inc, and other

affiliates. >>

Only when one is 100% guaranteed that no code from a specific copyright
holder is included, can the specific copyright holder be dropped from
the list. (Looking at the source code, I can't tell what pre-dates 2000.)


Note # 1: I've gotten the name of the German company wrong.  That needs
to be replaced with the correct name;
Note # 2: The list needs to start with when that German company started
coding the project;
Note # 3: I'm assuming that Sun, Inc was the sole copyright owner, for
code added to OOo during the years it ran the project.  If it wasn't,
the other copyright owners need to have their names added;
Note # 4: The copyright list states who the copyright holder was, when
it was published, not who the current copyright holder is;
Note # 5: "and other affiliates" needs to replaced with the name of the
specific copyright holders;

jonathon
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