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Re: License of Info Manuals



NAKAJIMA Mikio <minakaji@namazu.org> writes:

>   Copyright doesn't depend upon a copyright notice.  It exists when
> someone creates literary work, at least in Japan and maybe in the US
> (both countries are signatories of the Berne Converntion).

Yes, but contributors aren't mentioned at all in the documentation, so I
think it is assumed that they implicitly assign their copyright to the
copyright holder mentioned in the file when they send a patch.  If the
documentation contained a list of authors, it would be different.  But
IANAL etc...

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