[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 chak):

 I agree with Tim that the current situation appears to be legally awkward.
 It as a disadvantage of the BSD3 license (as opposed to the GPL) that the
 license does not force contributors to agree to the license by the act of
 contributing.  Hence, it might be a good idea to explicitly ask everybody
 whether they agree to submit all patches under BSD3 before handing them a
 commit bit - and save that email ;)  The same question should be asked to
 everybody who sends major patches by email (whatever major is here).

 Independent of this, the copyright information in many source files of GHC
 and the libraries is simply wrong.  Any major author of source code is
 '''automatically''' a joint copyright holder - independent of whether
 there is an appropriate attribution in the file (or anywhere else).  It's
 the act of creation that makes you a copyright owner (not the act of
 claiming copyright).  Concerning the practice of assigning the copyright
 to another entity, this is a rather questionable practice as the legal
 systems of some countries (e.g., Germany) do not allow copyright transfers
 (only the transfer of "usage rights").

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