[MPlayer-dev-eng] Sorry, but can I add licence lines in sources?

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 05:34:23PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > > I see  that Dariusz is asking to mplayer developers to add the GPL
> > > copyright line to source files :
> > >  I hope that we will be able to put mplayer in Debian soon!
> > i hope debian will ever treat multimedia software like other software, i mean 
> > if they would reject software because of missing copyright headers in a few 
> > files than there would be practically nothing left in debian, even the kernel 
> > has plenty of files with no copyright, just grep it if u dont belive it
> 
> Agree, adding 1k to each file to include the GPL info is redundant and
> unnecessary. All the code included in the tarball that gets compile is
> GPL or GPL-compatible and that should be a plenty for anyone making
> packages.

At least (if anybody cares) ONE line can be inserted into each source file
describing that correct and full license can be found in the file 'COPYING'
at the top level directory. Of course, that file then should be included
as well :)

- Gábor (larta'H)