Am Mittwoch, 20. September 2006 19:06 schrieb Christian Vest Hansen: > 2006/9/20, Ari Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 9/20/06, Christian Vest Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2006/9/20, Dennis Schridde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Who owns the copyright on a file of sourcecode when the file has been > > > > written by dozens of people? Is it shared between all of them? > > > > > > I think I know this one: all of the people who have code in the file, > > > have copyright. If, for instance, the file is to be relicensed, all of > > > them must agree to relicense the file. > > > > More likely, the copyright is held by a corporation or other business > > entity, and not by the programmers themselves. In the US, at least, > > works made for hire pass the copyright to the employer. > > I was presuming the "file" mentioned above was GPLed. If you want to > relicense a GPLed file, I think you need to get concent from everyone > who have code in it. So the copyright notice in the Warzone sourcecode files has to be: "Eidos and members of the Warzone Ressurrection Project" ? Or do we need to list everyone? Or can we refer to the AUTHORS file and add Eidos to the list of authors?
Also I think long time ago I have heard somewhere that if I a patch to a file I only have a (maybe partial if I only modified the line) copyright on that very line I changed. Is that correct? In the end that would leed us to having copyright on the 7th letter in the 150th line of this and that file. *ugh* --Dennis
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