Hi Phil and All, I'm planning to add this (or similar) text to the top of our ChangeLog file:
--- /* Copyright notice: All text in this file holds the copyright of respective authors seen in the entry headers if not indicated otherwise. Copying or other forms of usage is only permitted while giving credit to author including his/her full name, plus the text "Harbour Project" or "Harbour". In all other cases, usage requires explicit permission from author. Exception: Example code falls under the standard Harbour license found in COPYING. */ --- I'd welcome input from Harbour contributors. Brgds, Viktor On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 5:41 AM, Phil Barnett <[email protected]> wrote: > Viktor Szakáts wrote: > >> >> If the license doesn't change anything, we probably shouldn't have one at >> all, so I hope we agree that it's there to use it :) no offence meant. >> >> Brgds, >> Viktor >> > Well, the license DOES mean something. The GPL requires that copyrights are > carried forward into the borrowed code. If you live in a country that signed > the original Berne Convention, or has signed it since it's inception, your > code is automatically copyrighted the moment you write it. The list of > countries that didn't sign yet is quite small. > > If you find a module of yours being distributed with your copyright > removed, the copier has violated the GPL and has to get permission from you > directly to distribute your code. This is clear in the GPL. This is one of > the better things it does for us. > > You have a right to license your code in many ways. One of the ways we > license is via the GPL, which allows other people to borrow your code, but > they have to follow the rules. If they don't follow the rules, you have not > given them permission to distribute your code. You have the right to sue for > profits created from this illegal distribution. This is one of the reasons I > would like to see many modules copyrights donated to the FSF. They have > lawyers to enforce such things. > > But you are correct. The gentlemanly thing to do is to give credit to the > author in downline GPL usage. If we use code from any other project and it > is GPL code, I want everyone here to give credit and include the original > copyright in our source tree. I suspect that every GPL project manager wants > the same, but things happen without oversight or vision, so we may have to > be vigilant and authoratative to get things set straight. > > Let's give them some time to correct this and then you can give me examples > and I'll take it up with their project manager. > > And, yes, you are a MAJOR contributor to this project and you are very much > appreciated as are all of our contributors. > > _______________________________________________ > Harbour mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.harbour-project.org/mailman/listinfo/harbour >
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