Re: Releasing software sponsored by an employer

2005-11-03 Thread Arnoud Engelfriet
Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 09:23:40PM +0100, Arnoud Engelfriet wrote: John Morrissey wrote: I'm wondering what kind of documentation we should have that explicitly authorizes me to release this software (copyright still held by the company) to the public under a

Releasing software sponsored by an employer

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
As part of my day job, I'm working on a piece of Debian-specific software. I would like to release it under the GPL and the company is receptive, but we're not sure about the exact mechanism we should use. That's a 'work for hire'. Obviously, since it was written using their time and

Re: [no subject]

2005-11-03 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Emmanuel Colbus wrote: My main concern about this was that such relicensed copies could have been considered not free, but undistributable, as the GPL is supposed to apply to software, not to documents. Any collection of bits is software. The GPL works very well for any collection of bits.

Re: [no subject]

2005-11-03 Thread Andrew Donnellan
On 11/4/05, Nathanael Nerode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Emmanuel Colbus wrote: My main concern about this was that such relicensed copies could have been considered not free, but undistributable, as the GPL is supposed to apply to software, not to documents. Any collection of bits is