On Wednesday, 20 September 2006 at 19:43, Dennis Schridde wrote: > 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" ?
Something like that, yes. > Or do we need to list everyone? Or can we refer to the AUTHORS file and add > Eidos to the list of authors? An AUTHORS file, with Eidos added, and the SVN log for details should suffice. -- Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, along comes a faster rat!! _______________________________________________ Warzone-dev mailing list Warzone-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/warzone-dev
