Venkatesan Padmanabhan wrote: > Hi all, > Am just curious on how to release a software we built under > GPL? Like, Should I own a copyright for it and then release it under > GPL inorder to take the credit? > > Venkatesan Padmanabhan > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> As far my understanding is considered, [1] Copyright and Licensing are entirely separate though often work together. [2] If you have created the code/content yourself, i.e. you wrote the code, then you own it's copyrights (unless and until you work for an organization who pays for your work and hence in your agreement you have signed to the condition that whatever you do during the period of employment under than all your code will belong to them) and you have the right to decide under what license your creation can be put under. [3] If you are using someone else's code or content for what you are creating, then whatever you have obtained from others should confirm to their licensing terms. Still they hold the copyright of the same, unless they explicitly permit you to take ownership of the copyright. [4] License informs what you can do with a code/content and how to further derive out of it. Like it might tell who and what for you can use it, whether you can modify it, whether you can give it to others, whether you can modify it and give it to others, etc. [5] Just because a content is licensed under specific terms it doesn't mean you can modify the copyrights of it's creators. You just have the freedom and restrictions as stated by the license. If you want to take the credit for other's work, which is evil IMVHO, you have to explicitly ask them to transfer the copyrights over to you.
Correct me if my understanding is wrong in any case :) -- --- With Regards, Parthan "technofreak" <gpg> 2FF01026 <blog> http://blog.technofreak.in -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
