On Jan 4, 2008 10:19 PM, Jolley, Thomas P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It looks like a few of the libraries (osgFX, osgIntrospection, > osgManipulator, osgParticle, maybe osgShadow) were mostly written by > someone other than Robert yet Robert has a copyright notice on the top > of most of the files in these libraries. Were they assigned to Robert? > I beleive the intent on these libraries from the original authors is to > use the OSGPL license.
All these libraries were contributed under the OSGPL so use the standard copyright notice. FYI, osgShadow was written for the most part by me, while osgFX, osgIntrospection and osgParticle are primarily the work of Marco Jez. Copyright attribution turns out to be a rather complex matter when it comes to various national laws on the topic, there is also the copyright of individual components and composite work. The licensing is critical part of us w.r.r.t daily use, the copyright ownership become a critical matter once one needs to change the license or to go to court over infringement. > The osgPlugins looks like an interesting mishmash of copyright notices, > missing notices, very few license terms, and some wild claims. You have > to like the geo loader code that claims it is proprietary and has trade > secrets. Perhaps Geoff Michel the author of the code can clarify. The development of the Geo plugin was funded by Carbon Graphics and was contributed as a standard part of the OSG as open source so any copyright notices inherited from Geo headers just need clarification, if Carbon Graphics can't agree to change the notice then it'll be a case of pulling the plugin. Robert. _______________________________________________ osg-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openscenegraph.org/listinfo.cgi/osg-users-openscenegraph.org
