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Re: Ada policy
* Robert Dewar:
>> By the way , are copyright assignments for test cases required? Or
>> could we just copy testcases from everywhere, provided that they come
>> with proper licensing conditions and there's no apparent show-stopper?
>
> What do you mean by "come with proper licensing conditions"?
Something which isn't downright GPL-incompatible or even
unredistributable.
> Please remember that notices at the start of a file have no legal
> significance whatever.
I wouldn't say that. They won't help you much when you want to
determine the ultimate state of the work with respect to copyright, of
course. But as Joe Buck wrote in 2000, the main goal is to make
complaints very unlikely, and to me, this suggests are more optimistic
approach.