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Re: Copyright vs Open Source
From: |
Mike Jervis |
Subject: |
Re: Copyright vs Open Source |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:46:06 -0700 (PDT) |
User-agent: |
G2/1.0 |
David,
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
On Sep 14, 9:31 pm, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> The way you are describing it sounds like they are changing a copyright
> notice to an attribution.
> They can claim copyright for portions they wrote. The copyright notice
> would then read
OK, I think they're borderline clear then, an (edited for
anonymisation of third parties) copy/paste from their VC shows:
9 // | Copyright (C) 2002-2008 by the following
authors: |
10 //
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11 // | A Forder foker AT fork DOT
com |
12 //
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13 // | Based on the Original Project
Name |
14 // | Copyright (C) 2000-2008 by the following
authors: |
15 //
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16 // | Authors: Michael Jervis - mike AT [my excentric domain
name] DOT com |
Technically, this particular file was created by me in 2004. Since
forking the following code has been added:
45 if (stripos ($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], 'filename.class.php') !==
false) {
46 die ('This file can not be used on its own.');
47 }
In my personal opinion that doesn't make it clear that the copyright
rests with me. But like I said, it's a bit border line.
Cheers,
Mike