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
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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
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