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Robert Keller wrote:

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> On Aug 1, 2009, at 4:04 PM, nescivi wrote:

>

>

>> On Saturday 01 August 2009 13:36:20 laseray@gmail.com wrote:

>>

>>> On Saturday 01 August 2009 11:32:24 nescivi wrote:

>>>

>>>> On Wednesday 29 July 2009 00:49:09 David Robillard wrote:

>>>>

>>>>

>>> [snip]

>>>

>>> On another related point. I am still wondering what is up with the

>>> copyright changes that took place between version 2.04 and 3.39. I

>>> have the

>>> 2.04 source and I see that there are a number of people who have

>>> copyrights

>>> indicated in the GPL headers for that. Then when you look at the 3.39

>>> headers it only says that the copyrights belong to Keller and his

>>> educational institution. What is the situation with that?

>>>

>>> Either everybody transferred their copyrights to him and the

>>> institution or

>>> this is another set of violations (one for each person who had their

>>> respective copyright removed/changed). Personally, I would like see

>>> everybody who did work on that have their proper copyrights

>>> indicated.

>>> Some clarification would be helpful.

>>>

>> Bob Keller has to comment on that for the precise situation, but it

>> may well

>> be that student's work in his institution, are copyrighted by the

>> institution.

>>

>> sincerely,

>> Marije

>>

>

>

> We employ the students, so we own the copyright.

>

> Bob

Hi Bob :)
the headers done by other authors are still copyright by the original

authors. The code done by the Harvey Mudd College is copyright by it.

This always must be recognisable. I didn't download your source code,

that's why I don't know if the copyrights are done right or wrong, but I

guess this is the reason for the discord. Even if you changed headers

original done by other authors for more than 50% of the code, it must be

noticeable who was the original author and that you changed it. There's

a stipulation: "a) You must cause the modified files to carry prominent

notices stating that you changed the files and the date of any change."
Hth,

Ralf

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