[ gpsdrive ] copyrights

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Montag 20 August 2007 schrieb Hamish:
> Hi,
>
> I hate this sort of stuff, but I'm pretty sure it is damn important and
> it must be decided and dealt to by the group as a whole .....
>
I totally agree.

> [...]
>
> any objections to committing that much?
>
> I don't think that violates the spirit of the gentleman's agreement
> with Fritz to preserve his due credit and copyright over the old
> code. ??? Do you take that the same way ???
>
that sounds ok for me.

> All of Fritz's copyright statements that he put in source code headers
> and his documentation must remain, what I'm advocating is to be like:
>   (c) 2001-2004 Fritz Ganter, 2005-2007 The GpsDrive Development Team
>
> or somesuch style, and not assign new code (c) 2007 Fritz Ganter, as it
> infact belongs to the author. After that is decided all source code files
> need to be audited for authorship, with authors listed (a script that pours
> through the cvs checkin log can do that automatically), or at least the
> main code files should theoretically get that. Or maybe "Contributers" in
> gpsdrive.c style is ok for each component (GUI, DB, OSM inteface, ...)?
>
so I don't know really much about this legal stuff, but is it enough, to write 
the header line you mentioned into all the source files, and add somewhere 
(mabe in AUTHORS) a line:
"The GpsDrive Development Team are:"
followed by all the names.

or do the names have to be mentioned in the source files themselves?
the the svn script method should be appropriate.

one other thing:
there are a lot of comments inside the source that say "mod by..."
my opinion is, these statements don't belong there and should be removed.

> Releasing a new version with a murky copyright status is a very bad
> idea IMHO.
>
right.

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