Re: A question about submitting a new source code file

[Basile Starynkevitch]

On 4/7/24 15:30, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> Good morning, Paul.
>
> Thanks for the explanation.
>
> On Sun, Apr 7, 2024 at 8:08 AM Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> wrote:
> > In short, if you create a new file and assign it to the FSF then you
> > can still do whatever you want with that file, including even use a
> > completely proprietary license for it.
> i am intending to include that file to a library of mine which is
> released under the bsd license.
> Usually, souch source code file would contain something like
> /*
>   * Copyright (c) 2017 Dmitry Goncharov
>   *
>   * Distributed under the BSD License.
>   * (See accompanying file COPYING).
>   */
>
> Do i understand it correctly, that in my copy of this new file that is
> assigned to the FSF, i'll remove the
> copyright part and the header becomes
> /*
>   * Distributed under the BSD License.
>   * (See accompanying file COPYING).
>   */
> and whoever is using that library can keep using it under the BSD license?


You need to ask both your lawyer and the FSF one, and the details are 
country specific.

I am French, and when I contributed to GCC, I was told by the lawyers of 
my former employer (www.cea.fr) that you should always keep a Copyright 
(c) 2024 Free Software Foundation comment, with an additional line: 
Contributed by First Last names of author.

Perhaps rules have changed since then.

My current free software project (GPLv3+ licensed) is the RefPerSys 
inference engine on https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys/ 
(contributors are welcome!)

For an example of a software component (part of GCC compiler) which is 
written by an American person (Ian Taylor) see 
https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace

Thanks for reading.

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