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On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 09:03:20AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> Kirk would have to back me up on this, but my understanding of the
> decisions that the UCB Regents legal staff came to was that each
> file should have a complete copyright and license clause and any
> thing less causes problems because of "seprability", and "alterability"
> because of seperate files.

Are you talking about a decision made before the USA joined the rest of
the civilised world as signee of the Berne Convention? The copyright
notice was certainly required at the time. A full license clause is
nicer for "stealing" things, but certainly not required.

Joerg