I'm going to use the following header for my new classes, if at some point JPP becomes an actual Organization then I'll be happy to use that instead.
/* ***************************************************************************** The Open Java Unified Mapping Platform (OpenJUMP) is an extensible, interactive GUI for visualizing and manipulating spatial features with geometry and attributes. Copyright (C) 2007 Revolution Systems Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. For more information see: http://openjump.org/ ******************************************************************************/ Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > Paul, > > This question does not have a simple answer. I'll do my best to > provide an explanation. > > Vivid Solutions holds the copyright for all of the original JUMP > source code. Most code in OpenJUMP that is not part of the original > JUMP code is held by the respective programmers or their > organizations. > > This topic came up a year or two ago. I suggested having the copyright > on all source code given to the JPP as an organization or to the Free > Software Conservancy. At a minimum I suggested tracking the copyright > holder on all new contributions. > > At the time these ideas didn't receive a very warm welcomed. I beleive > that the general consensus was that because JUMP was released under > the GPL, copyrights didn't really matter. I'm not sure how true this > is, but I am not a legal expert in this area. > > What happens if a programmer adds code to or modifies the code in a > class from JUMP? Does the copyright to that portion of the class file > remain with the programmer, or does it become Vivid's? If it does > belong to the individual programmer we get a real messy situation > where even a single class file could have multiple copyright holders. > > This starts to get pretty messy and a little ridiculous. I still think > any code that goes into the "core" should have its copyright granted > to a nuetral third party. > > SS > > In summary, we don't really have a good idea who holds the copyright to what. > :[ > > On 9/18/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is there a standard copyright header for open jump, who owns the copyright? >> >> Paul >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
