From: James S. <jam...@op...> - 2007-04-27 06:33:33
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On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 06:49 +0100, Keith Marshall wrote: > On Friday 27 April 2007 02:27, James Steward wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 09:53 +0100, Keith MARSHALL wrote: > > > James Steward wrote: > > > > And are similar copyright notices required on my Makefile, def > > > > file, etc? > > > > > > That's your choice, but I'd recommend it. Use similar wording to > > > that which you should find in other files in the package, in > > > respect of it's GPL or LGPL licensing. > > > > How does this look? > > > > /* Extended regular expression matching and search library. > > Copyright (C) 2007 In Chip Design P/L. > > > > This file is part of a cheap and cheerful port of the extended > > regular expression matching and search library (regex), > > taken from the GNU C Library, to MinGW. > > > > Contributed by James Steward <jamessteward _at_ optusnet.com.au>. > > > > The regex library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or > > modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public > > License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either > > version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. > > > > The regex library 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 > > Lesser General Public License for more details. > > > > You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public > > License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free > > Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA > > 02111-1307 USA. */ > > Looks good to me. Just a couple of comments:-- > > 1) Is In Chip Design P/L your own Company? If so, then your copyright > extends only to the files you've added as new; the original copyright > holder still retains an interest in the package, and since your files > alone aren't sufficient to provide a working program, or library, you > should add accreditation for the original copyright owner too. I am an employee of In Chip Design P/L, not the owner. I presume though that the company I work for holds the copyright for the work I do during work time? Do you mean to say that I should accredit the Free Software Foundation, Inc. with some sort of copyright over the files I wrote from scratch? I can't really see why. Or have I answered this with.... The original FSF files I used retain their original license banner with the addition of my "Modified ...." bit. > 2) In the `You should have received...' paragraph, you should change the > reference `along with the GNU C Library', to reflect the name of the > actual package you are providing, (regex, in this case). You should > also be sure to include the appropriate license file in your package > tarball. True. Will do. Regards, James. |