> 2 Copyright > Your remarks "ImageJ is open-source ..." are not valid as long > as you don't put at least your copyright there, for example: > Copyright (c) 2001-2002. Wayne Rasband. All rights reserved. Not true, at least for Germany.
You, the author, implicitely acquire the copyright by creating the Work. No need to put in a statement although it helps a lot. Unless you explicitely put something into the Public Domain it is yours. Yours stays yours even with the GPL except for when you actively put it in the Public domain. And: Regardless of the copyright notice mentioned above your code may or may not be open source. If it is Public Domain it is open source but not under your copyright anymore. If it is, for example, GPL it is open source and still your part is under your copyright (well, the self-restricting version thereof called copyleft). IANAL (they are better paid by far), but that's my understanding. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
