On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 19:21:18 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: > > ... > > 2. In ./src and all its subdirectories, I grep'ped for every > occurrence > of "Copyright" and found 617 (this is an artificially high number). > > - Of these, 231 state simply a date and "all rights reserved". I > believe > (but did not check every instance) that these occur in the same files > that name no author. > > - Fortunately, many others do name the copyright holder(s) in various > combinations. > > What's the problem? Well I'm may be just a dumb engineer but it seems > to > me that copyright statements must have an owner, so we have a muddle. > In > the case of a "derived" work, is it not subject to copyright because > the > parent work is not? If so, what does it mean to say "all rights > reserved"? > > While the current code base seems well armed with statements of GPL 2 > and LGPL 2 licensing, it seem to me that this same vagueness of > ownership creates a muddle. "Who" is granting these licenses if no > author is named?
If I may make a suggestion with moving forward with v3 -- I think that it was the R-project that used to require that any submission be released with open-source rights/requirements. It will make life a LOT easier in the future to specify what licensing is required to contribute-to/play-with LinuxCNC. Put another way -- just think of how much time and effort has been wasted with (how many times is is not) all the times these discussions have come up, rehashed, argued over, ... If a package cannot be used because of licensing, then maybe you can find someone to write the parts that you want from library XYZ. just my 2c. EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
