So in other words, the copyright on the DLL should read: (C) 200X Auth#1, 200Y Auth#2?
Yes, with the GNU GPL after that/those lines. I probably could have stood to have been slightly more specific, Although the app links dynamically to the DLL, the app itself is largely just an interface to the object wrappers (also created by author #2) in the library. Example: Calculator (say) app written by author #1. Author #2 scraps author #1's interface, adds a few minor features, creates object wrappers, coverts the app into a DLL, and builds a new interface that links to the library at run time. To me it doesn't seems 100% kosher for author #1 to lose the copyright on the bundled app as the application engine is his work. He doesn't loose anything, author #2 modified an pre-existing work which was copyrighted. So author #2 most follow whatever license that work was licensed under, in this case it was the GNU GPL, so section 2 applies. Please read this section, it isn't very hard to understand if you take a few seconds of your time. Cheers. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
