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Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian
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Travis Briggs |
Subject: |
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian |
Date: |
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:36:03 -0400 |
The source material could be public domain, but the snippet itself is
a 'derivative work' and is thus under the copyright of whoever made
it.
-Travis
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Valentin Villenave
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Joseph Wakeling
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What I propose is that I maintain a separate branch of the code (but
>> keep pulling/rebasing against the Lilypond master) to insert appropriate
>> copyright and licensing notices. git blame should help to give a better
>> idea of who has contributed to what, so I can fire of queries to authors
>> where necessary.
>
> Good luck with that :)
>
>> What would be good is if as many contributors as possible can reply to
>> this email just to OK (i) my putting copyright/licensing notices in the
>> files they have contributed to and (ii) their licensing preferences for
>> their contributions:
>
> OK for my contributions. "or later" clause OK as well.
>
>> I think that snippets are already public domain since it's a condition
>> of submission to LSR.
>
> public domain is not a license. That would be
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL :-)
>
> Regards,
> Valentin
>
>
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Re: Overview of copyright issues, Don Armstrong, 2009/09/09
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Anthony W. Youngman, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Reinhold Kainhofer, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Joseph Wakeling, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Anthony W. Youngman, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Graham Percival, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Graham Percival, 2009/09/10
Re: Overview of copyright issues + Debian, Don Armstrong, 2009/09/10