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Re: Licensing Issues
From: |
Riccardo |
Subject: |
Re: Licensing Issues |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:43:00 +0100 |
Hmm,
I'm not a legal expert at all and Licenses have caused me headache more
than one time...
On Friday, February 25, 2005, at 10:44 PM, britt creamer wrote:
base/Source/NSNotificationQueue.m has Copyright 1995, 1996
Ovidiu Predescu and Mircea Oancea
gui/Images/GNUstep_Images_Copyright has Copyright 1997 Andrew
Lindesay
gui/Source/NSBezierPath.m has Copyright 1998 Raph
Levien
gui/Source/tiff.m has 2 Copyrights
of concern: 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Sam Leffler
1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 Silicon
Graphics, Inc.
<cut>
Question for First Issue:
Is it possible to have all non FSF Copyright names removed from all
GNUstep code for this concern?
I think not. I refer to the Tiff library for example. It was developed
by SGI. So any program that uses that code refers to that copyright. And
that are almost all programs I know of, including commercial ones.
The second point is that this thinking will prevent you to use a lot of
GPL/LGPL code (or BSD too). You have to sign and transfer the copyright
of your application to FSF after applying for it.
I for example release PRICE under GPL, but my name appears in the
copyright, since I did not transfer (C) to fsf.
SO I suppose anyone that takes some imaging code out of price and puts
it in GNUstep, provided the license is compatible, should retain my
Copyright. Or am I wrong here?
Maybe some of the people who are core GNUstep developers might cast
light on this matter.
--R