Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> > Of course you should leave the original copyright notices in > > place. > > That I was not so sure about. This is NOT a GPL requirement, just a nice thing to do. It is also illegal to remove such notices AFAIK. ___ gnu-misc-discuss

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Likewise I don't want to give the impressions that the original author is responsible for bugs that I may have intoduced. That is what a bug reporting email addresses is for. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-16 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
What copyright notices should be left and/or added to the source. All such notices should be left as they are. You should add your name (and the name of any contributor that add changes that are deemed copyrightable unless you start collecting copyright assignments) to the list of copyright ho

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-15 Thread John Hasler
Dave writes: > Likewise I don't want to give the impressions that the original author is > responsible for bugs that I may have intoduced. That is why the GPL says: a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any chang

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-15 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dave (from the UK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > > Of course you should leave the original copyright notices in place. > > That I was not so sure about. This is NOT a GPL requirement, just a nice thing to do. > > You > > don't want

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-15 Thread Dave (from the UK)
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:05:31 + "Dave (from the UK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I decided to take on further development of the project, so created a new project on Sourceforge http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ for a new chess program 'ChessDB' for which 99.9% of t

Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-15 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:05:31 + "Dave (from the UK)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I decided to take on further development of the project, so created a > new project on Sourceforge > > http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/ > > for a new chess program 'ChessDB' for which 99.9% of the code is the >

Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

2006-12-15 Thread Dave (from the UK)
There is a chess software program package 'scid' http://scid.sourceforge.net/ which was primarily developed by one author. He license this under the GPL. Most/all of the source files have a copyright notice similar to this: Part of:Scid (Shane's Chess Information Database) Notice: Co