[Development] Copyright changes

Darryl Miles darryl-mailinglists at netbauds.net
Sat Mar 9 01:15:46 CET 2013


Please review this text here :


Hirvonen Olli wrote:
> *LGPL:*
>
> /****************************************************************************
> **
> ** Copyright (C) 2013 Digia Plc and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
> ** Contact:http://www.qt-project.org/legal
> **
> ** This file is part of the XXXXXXX module of the Qt.
> **
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> ** In addition, as a special exception, Digia gives you certain additional
                                           ^^^^^

I think it should read something like:

'The copyright holder(s) grant you certain additional rights.'


This then covers all scenarios as I believe was original intended.


Those scenarios are:

* Digia is sole copyright holder
* Some other party is sole copyright holder
* Digia and some other part are copyright holders of their respective 
fragments of data


Obviously run it past a lawyer:

Check "gives" is good legal English, I would think rights are "granted" 
myself.

Not sure if "holder(s)" is good legal English.



> ** rights. These rights are described in the Digia Qt LGPL Exception
> ** version 1.1, included in the file LGPL_EXCEPTION.txt in this package.
> **
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