Am Donnerstag, 21. September 2006 00:32 schrieb Christian Ohm: > 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. I'll do that then. Add Eidos Inc. to the authors file and add a GPL notice in every file with "Copyright 1999, see the AUTHORS file for details" above it?
--Dennis
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