Re: [Blitz-support] blitz++ development

[Paul H. <pph...@gm...>]

>
>  According to the copyright notices, the majority of
> blitz is copyrighted by Todd Veldhuizen, so we'd need to clear it with
> him.
>
> According to my understanding of the blitz++ license is that the
whole copyright belongs to Todd, from the blitz Artistic license states (4a)
:

***

a. place your modifications in the Public Domain or otherwise
make them Freely Available, such as by posting said
modifications to the Blitz++ development list,
and allowing the Copyright Holder to include
your modifications

***

so all modifications to bliz++ by external contributers

 are public domain or "freely available".

***

The Copyright holder is

"Copyright Holder" is whoever is named in the copyright or

copyrights for the package.

***

from sourceforge CVS we have,

Blitz was originally written by Todd Veldhuizen <tve...@ac...>
It was moved to sourceforge at the beginning of October 2002.




, so I guess it is still Todd if not otherwise mentioned in the file headers.


Regards,

Paul







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