Re: Copyright notices on GPL'ed software

[Dave (from the UK)]

Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 21:05:31 +0000
> "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@southminster-branch-line.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
> > I decided to take on further development of the project, so created a 
> > new project on Sourceforge
> >
> > http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > for a new chess program 'ChessDB' for which 99.9% of the code is the 
> > code from Scid, with minor changes here and there.
> >
> > What copyright notices should be left and/or added to the source.
>
>
> Why not read the GPL? This is what it says:
>
> |  2. You may modify your copy or copies of the Program or any portion
> | of it, thus forming a work based on the Program, and copy and
> | distribute such modifications or work under the terms of Section 1
> | above, provided that you also meet all of these conditions:

Chers. I did read that, but was unsure what specifically to do about the 
copryright issue.
> You can add your own copyright notice (which then also serves to meet
> the requirement of clause 2a). 
>
> Of course you should leave the original copyright notices in place. 

That I was not so sure about.
> You
> don't want to create the impression you wrote the code, do you?

No I don't.

Likewise I don't want to give the impressions that the original author 
is responsible for bugs that I may have intoduced.


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