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