[GHC] #740: Copyright information is wrong in some GHC source files

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#740: Copyright information is wrong in some GHC source files
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 Reporter:  guest    |          Owner:         
     Type:  bug      |         Status:  new    
 Priority:  lowest   |      Milestone:  _|_    
Component:  Prelude  |        Version:  6.4.1  
 Severity:  trivial  |     Resolution:         
 Keywords:           |     Difficulty:  Unknown
 Testcase:  N/A      |   Architecture:  Unknown
       Os:  Unknown  |  
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Comment (by tim):

 At least under US law, however, the original author does retain copyright
 (as Lennart said in the original bug report) *unless* they explicitly
 enter into a contract that says that they give up copyright. The question
 is whether the act of committing (or submitting) a patch constitutes a
 contractual agreement to give up copyright (licensing one's work under the
 BSD license is a form of giving up copyright, as the BSD license, broad as
 it is, involves terms that are different than the terms that would apply
 if somebody retained all rights.)

 You say that the BSD license is "pretty much liberal enough for everyone",
 but I'm not that confident. I'm sure all GHC contributors are nice people
 who would never sue over their code being redistributed, but with the
 number of people on the contributors list, maybe it gets to be a risk to
 the project to assume that everyone is nice and the license is liberal
 enough.

 Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, nor do I play one on TV.

 -Tim

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