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Re: Copyright question.


From: John Hasler
Subject: Re: Copyright question.
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 16:33:21 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux)

Heath Caldwell writes:
> If I have modified a work that is released under the GNU GPL or the Perl
> Artistic License, who owns the copyright on the work?  Who owns the
> copyright of the modifications

The license is irrelevant.  The author of the original owns the copyright
in the unaltered elements.  You own the copyright in the elements you
added.

> How do I indicate copyrights properly?

You leave the original author's notices unaltered and add your own.
-- 
John Hasler 
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA

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