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[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #250073] wikimedia, make a fork and t
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Dave Turner via RT |
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[Savannah-hackers-public] [gnu.org #250073] wikimedia, make a fork and the GPL |
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Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:25:16 -0400 |
> [sebastian - Mon Aug 22 15:03:21 2005]:
>
> Hello Dave(?). :-)
>
>
> Another problem:
> wikimedia (powered by SF.net) was released under the GNU GPL, but
> lacks any information about license + copyright.
> The project has got a COPYING file, but any source file lacks
> these notices.
>
> Now oklahoma
> (https://savannah.gnu.org/task/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=4542)
> wants to make a "fork" (or at least something like that -> "derivative
> work").
>
> But if he wants to copy /all/ files from wikimedia and then work on
> this, he had to insert license/copyright/permission-to-copy
> statements.
>
> But he also had to protect the rights of the original author(s).
> Here we have got a problem.
>
>
> Because of the insert GPL in COPYING we can assume that *all* files
> were published
> under the GPL? So he can insert GPL license stuff at top of each file
> of source code?
Yes.
> Can we also assume that the pictures were published under the GPL?
Sure.
> And what about the copyright stuff? How does he know where the
> original author is of a file? Or can we assign all copyright per
> default to the Wikimedia project?
You could check CVS logs, or just leave that blank.
--
-Dave "Novalis" Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation
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