That works for me Paul. I'm not going to push the copyright issue until someone else feels that it is important.
The Sunburned Surveyor On 9/18/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm going to use the following header for my new classes, if at some > point JPP becomes an actual Organization then I'll be happy to use that > instead. > > /* > ***************************************************************************** > The Open Java Unified Mapping Platform (OpenJUMP) is an extensible, > interactive > GUI for visualizing and manipulating spatial features with geometry and > attributes. > > Copyright (C) 2007 Revolution Systems Inc. > > This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License > as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 > of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > > This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, > but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of > MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License > along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software > Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, > USA. > > For more information see: > > http://openjump.org/ > > > ******************************************************************************/ > > > Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > > Paul, > > > > This question does not have a simple answer. I'll do my best to > > provide an explanation. > > > > Vivid Solutions holds the copyright for all of the original JUMP > > source code. Most code in OpenJUMP that is not part of the original > > JUMP code is held by the respective programmers or their > > organizations. > > > > This topic came up a year or two ago. I suggested having the copyright > > on all source code given to the JPP as an organization or to the Free > > Software Conservancy. At a minimum I suggested tracking the copyright > > holder on all new contributions. > > > > At the time these ideas didn't receive a very warm welcomed. I beleive > > that the general consensus was that because JUMP was released under > > the GPL, copyrights didn't really matter. I'm not sure how true this > > is, but I am not a legal expert in this area. > > > > What happens if a programmer adds code to or modifies the code in a > > class from JUMP? Does the copyright to that portion of the class file > > remain with the programmer, or does it become Vivid's? If it does > > belong to the individual programmer we get a real messy situation > > where even a single class file could have multiple copyright holders. > > > > This starts to get pretty messy and a little ridiculous. I still think > > any code that goes into the "core" should have its copyright granted > > to a nuetral third party. > > > > SS > > > > In summary, we don't really have a good idea who holds the copyright to > > what. :[ > > > > On 9/18/07, Paul Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Is there a standard copyright header for open jump, who owns the copyright? > >> > >> Paul > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > >> Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > >> http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > >> Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > >> > >> > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Jump-pilot-devel mailing list > Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
