Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-25 Thread David Kastrup
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Any official GNU docs or position on this subject? Copyrights have to be tracked. Where the project is important, [...] This is also true for non-important projects. Create editing is really a pastime of yours. You cut away the second

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
John Hasler wrote: [...] There is no need to round them all up. Each has a copyright in the work and can prosecute infringement independently of all the others. Thus IBM is prosecuting its claims that SCO is infringing its copyrights Uncle Husler, uncle Husler. IBM asserted two GPL

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-25 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Please refrain from posting adhominem attacks to this list. We already have one person doing such things, including creative ASCII art. ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-25 Thread David Kastrup
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please refrain from posting adhominem attacks to this list. We already have one person doing such things, including creative ASCII art. It is not an adhominem attack if I complain about you repeatedly mangling postings of mine in misleading manners,

copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread jmg3000
If you're running a free software project, and a contributor posts a few lines of code, or a patch, to the public mailing list (implicitly expecting you to feel free to incorporate the posted code into the project), it would seem reasonable for a project copyright holder (one who's doing the

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're running a free software project, and a contributor posts a few lines of code, or a patch, to the public mailing list (implicitly expecting you to feel free to incorporate the posted code into the project), it would seem reasonable for a project copyright

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread David Kastrup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Kastrup wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I assume that all committers on a given project put their names in the license header of the files that they modify. Rarely. Hm. Whoops. I'd forgotten about copyright assignment for GNU projects. For other

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread John Hasler
jmg3000 writes: Actually, where a large number of folks all have their own copyrights for a given project, I don't see how that could work. It's not like you could conceivably round them all up and get them to show up in court if they actually had to legally defend their collective licensing

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Any official GNU docs or position on this subject? Copyrights have to be tracked. Where the project is important, [...] This is also true for non-important projects. To the OP, check the GNU Maintainer guidelines and the GNU Coding Standards. That is what GNU projects (and some

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread jmg3000
David Kastrup wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you're running a free software project, and a contributor posts a few lines of code, or a patch, to the public mailing list (implicitly expecting you to feel free to incorporate the posted code into the project), it would seem reasonable

Re: copyright and incorporating code from mailing list posts

2006-08-24 Thread jmg3000
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: [snip] To the OP, check the GNU Maintainer guidelines and the GNU Coding Standards. That is what GNU projects (and some non-GNU projects) follow. Ah. That's what I was looking for. :) Here we are: http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/ . Section 4.2 mentions around 15