John Perks and Sarah Mount wrote: > we have some Python code we're planning to GPL. However, bits of it were > cut&pasted from some wxPython-licenced code to use as a starting point > for implementation. It is possible that some fragments of this code > remains unchanged at the end. > Whether or not some fragments of code remain unchanged at the end of your project, if you start out with a piece of source code lifted from wxPython then what you have created is definitely a "derivative work" and, as such, you must take into account the wxPython license in your licensing of the derivative work.
> How should we refer to this in terms of copyright statements and bundled > Licence files? Is there, say, a standard wording to be appended to the > GPL header in each source file? Does the original author need to be > named as one of the copyright holders, or that ours is a derivative work > from his? Which of these would be required under the terms of the > Licence, and which by standard practice / courtesy? > You'll have to read the wxPython license in order to find out the answer to that question. > (This assumes the wxPython Licence is compatible with the GPL -- if not, > do we just cosmetically change any remaining lines, so none remain from > the orignal?) > That won't stop your code from being a derivative work. You'll need to take licensing and copyright issues a little more seriously before you release anything. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
