Re: DLL Copyright

[Alexander Terekhov]

Jacob JKW wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The following happens:
> 
> 1) Source code to an executable is released under the GPL by author #1.
> 2) Source code is lightly modified by author #2 and then included as a
> DLL bundled with a new GPL app by a author #2.
> 
> How should the copyright info be handled?

You mean copyright on bundle and individual binaries?

(external templates, complex macros, and components in object code form 
"statically linked" with executables and shared libs aside for a moment)

DLL copyright: author #1, author #2.

app copyright: author #2 (assuming that app doesn't contain any protected
expression from source code to an executable by author #1).

bundle copyright (on a compilation work under copyright law): author #2 
(let's put aside originality hurdle).

regards,
alexander.