On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 12:24:38 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Kurt Häusler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> By leaving their name in the text of the gpl license file rather >> than say overwriting it with either my name or my employer's >> name. Which is standard practice right? > > Sigh. That makes the license remain copyrighted by the FSF, but does > not affect your software. Without an explicit transfer of copyright > (and a legal step such as transfer of ownership requires _two_ > consenting parties and can't be done unilaterally by writing some > stuff into a file), the copyright remains with the author. Ahh that makes sense, now. I don't know why I was under that misunderstanding for so long! I am sure I have seen other instances of people putting their own name in the gpl.txt in order to claim copyright over the software itself and maybe thats what confused me. I think I better stick to either public domain or commercial licenses for now, at least until I become a lawyer or able to afford one! _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
