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Re: Applying the GPL (or any license) to your code


From: John W. Eaton
Subject: Re: Applying the GPL (or any license) to your code
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 11:30:49 -0500

On  2-Mar-2005, Stefan van der Walt <address@hidden> wrote:

| Octave still expects the "This is free software"-string for scripts.
| Can this be changed to allow the use of FreeBSD or similar
| licenses?

One way around that is to put the help text in the first block of
comments followed by the copyright notice.

But perhaps when deciding whether a block of comments is a copyright
notice, we should just see if the first word matches "[Cc]opyright"
and that is all?

jwe



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