On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > There is no contributor license agreement. Every file must be GPLv2+ > licensed. If you start a new file you have copyright on that module whether > you put your name in there or not; But we need the GPLv2+ statement to > distribute it as part of Sage.
That I have no problem with. > On Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 12:16:11 PM UTC+2, Erik Bray wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I am not a lawyer, I don't pretend to be a lawyer, nor do I even >> pretend like I know anything about copyrights or licenses beyond what >> I can read on Wikipedia. >> >> So I'm very confused about the policy for copyrighting any work I >> contribute to sage. I would like to add a new file to sage--I've >> noticed that most files contain some kind of copyright notice, >> assigning copyright ownership to the original author of the file (many >> of these also have woefully outdated copyright dates despite the files >> being since updated, though my understanding is this technically >> doesn't matter). >> >> So my question is, what should I put in a new file? I don't want to >> claim copyright ownership under my own name, because I expect any file >> I contribute to the project to belong to all developers of the >> project, and for its protections to be covered under Sage's GPL >> license anyways. >> >> It would seem more efficient to simply put a notice at the top of the >> file to refer to Sage's license. >> >> Thanks, >> Erik > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-devel" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
