Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-19 Thread Venkatesh Raghavan
Rajan and All, I think Ravi was seeking clarification about All Rights Reserved mentioned in some of the OSGeo Software's copyright notices. © symbol or word Copyright followed publication date and copyright owner's name should be adequate (like in many web sites) to be protected under

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-18 Thread K S Rajan
Ravi, In India software does have copyright but is not patentable (will not go into details of why it is not patentable in India). Copyright is automatic from the time the work is created. Also, as Puneet points out the original author does have a copyright and it can be enforced by the author

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread Iván Sánchez Ortega
El Miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2013 23:26:19 Ravi Kumar escribió: How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. STFW. http://www.osgeo.org/content/foundation/legal/licenses.html «The Open Source Geospatial

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread Arnulf Christl
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17.10.2013 08:26, Ravi Kumar wrote: How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right Pl give a link where therationale is explained especially for OSGeo. I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. This is to a

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Copy Left and Copyright for Geospatial software

2013-10-17 Thread P Kishor
On Oct 16, 2013, at 11:26 PM, Ravi Kumar ravivundavall...@yahoo.com wrote: ​ ​ How many of the OSGeo Softwares are Copy Left and Copy Right ​ ​ Pl give a link where the rationale is explained especially for OSGeo. I am aware that Free Software Foundation has things explained. This is to a