On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
I would really like to get this part properly spelt out. If there's a project foobar that is distributed under the GPL. If I use code from that in my own project framitz, I know I am supposed to distribute framitz under the GPL as well. But I get to keep the copyright for framitz, right?
it depends on whether framitz is essentially foobar with additions or a totally different project that's borrowed say, once source file from foobar.
In the former case, the copyright remains with the original developers, you hold the copyright on code that you develop. you will own the copyright on framitz, but not on all of its code.
In the latter case, you own the copyright on everything except those source files that are borrowed. You need to clearly mark out these sections - by commenting the header of the source file, or sometimes even the single function that's been copied.
You have link that says "GNU GPL", to a file called "Copying" ... shouldn't you customise it to reflect your copyright notice and project name?
yeah, maybe I should. :P
Philip