[ gpsdrive ] copyrights

[Joerg Ostertag]

> 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 .....

YES!

...

> 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.

I personally would also be in favor of having a (comparable) small note about 
the copyright in each source-file. And then having one File (like AUTHORS) 
which holds all the author names. If this would be a legally working 
solution.

One petition to Hamisch:
	 Since you probably know most about this subject; Could you (please) take
	care of this and add this (legally correct ;-) to all the source Files?
	Thanks a lot :-)

Maybe there is a possibility to get part of this information from the 
"svn log".


> 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.

If we don't need them I would also move them to a central AUTHORS File.

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

That probably pretty true....


-
Joerg