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From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
To: Thomas Abthorpe <tabthorpe@goodking.ca>
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On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:57:49AM -0400, Thomas Abthorpe wrote:
> Please keep in mind, BSD, ZLIB and a few other licenses include something
> like
> 
> Copyright (c) <YEAR>, <OWNER>
> 
> in which the copyright holder exerts year and name, see
> http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause as an example
> 
> Currently the licensing framework does not include a means of
> incorporating name/date with a template file for viewing, so it is just
> better to display the provided license file.

I see.  Indeed, our licensing framework leaves lots of room for improvement.
Do we have any plans for fixing these shortcomings?  IMHO it could have made
a nice GSoC project.

./danfe