Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Quoting from wikipedia[1] > > (note however that when the United States joined the Convention > in 1988, it continued to make statutory damages and attorney's fees > only available for registered works). > > Does that mean if somebody would infringe the GPL on git (e.g. selling > a modified git version without giving sources), it would be harder to > tell him to stop because of the missing attorney's fees in case we drop > out the copyright notices? (I have no deep understanding of legal > processes in the US). No. "registered works" in that sentence is about registering copyright with U.S. Copyright Office. In-file Copyright circle-c line does not have much to do with that. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html