July 27, 2004 GPL Compliance Case Studies Use copyright notices better

Use copyright notices better

Bad: 
  /.
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   Copyright 2003, David "Novalis" Turner 
  ./

Good: 
  char copyright[] =
  "@(#) Copyright (c) 2003, David "Novalis" Turner \n";

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