On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, Whit Armstrong wrote: > I will be taking over as maintainer of the its package from Giles Heywood. > The code was originally written while he was working at Commerzbank. I have > added the header below to the top of the R source file to indicate the > changes in the copyrights for the code. The package was originally released > under GPL2. I have no experience with copyright issues, and would > appreciate it if someone who does would kindly indicate whether the header > below is correct and conforms with normal practice.
Well, GPL2 is a licence, not a copyright. I don't know what country you are in, whereas Giles was in the UK -- copyright issues are somewhat country-specific. However, two recommendations: 1) only give the year of the changes. They can overlap. 2) only add your copyright statement to files you actually change (and not just change by adding a copyright statement but adding something with intellectual content). This is all untested waters and let's hope it remains that way! > Thanks in advance, > Whit Armstrong > > > <header in R source file itspkg.r> > # itspkg.r: a time series library in R > # Copyright (C) 2003 to June 2004 Commerzbank Securities > # Copyright (C) June 2004 to present Whit Armstrong > # > # 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., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 > USA > </header in R source file itspkg.r> -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
