Hallo all, as a lot of us developers have to deal with copyright problems, I would like to start this (hopefully) littly project.
I would like to write a COPYRIGHT HOWTO, which might be send to authors of software, which a) do not state what copyright is associated with their software and b) who do not use a free (enough) license. What should be in there: 1. A discussion what is necessary to constitute a Copyright and License for a program (Do you have to state copyright in every file, is a COPYRIGHT file in the top directory enough, is a Copyright line in an LSM file enough, etc.). 1a. Why to make the effort. 2. A brief discussion of what does "free" mean in the software sense. 2a. Why to make it free. 3. A brief discussion of some of the different licenses. 3a. Some of the licenses. _4._ Big disclaimer, as we are not lawyers. :-) As I haven´t got enough knowledge to write this whole thing, I would like to have some input. Any hints and pointers to web sites are greatly appreciated. Below is a short list of urls attached, where I found some information about this theme (and still have to read :-( much). Feel free to modify the list above. Maybe you´ve got some other information regarding this, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED], or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or to this list) TIA, Jens P.S.: Do we need something like this? http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/LICENSES/theory.html http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/why-free.html http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/categories.html http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/treaty.html For german readers: http://www.yahoo.de/Computer_und_Internet/Internet/Politik/Recht/ --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73 37 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
