[AnyC-devel] copyright issues

[Daniel W. <dan...@ro...>]

I have been looking over the code and thinking about this project, and=20
something occurred to me:
The code is probably over 90% finished, and considering that, I would lik=
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have sole copyright of the code.  There are a couple of reasons for this:

1. Since I have written most of the code already, I have a lot to lose, a=
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not much to gain by incorporating code that I don't hold copyright of.

2. If I ever wanted to dual-lisence the code, it would be incredibly=20
complicated if I wasn't the only copyright holder.  Other lisences, such =
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the one used by Qt, would be interesting if anyone was ever interested in=
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using AnyC in a commercial software product.

  This is not to say will change to a non-GPL license for the project.  T=
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main project will stay GPL, but if it ever looked promising to extend int=
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commercial product, I would like to have the possibility. =20
  The effect of this is that I would like to be the one to make any major=
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code additions or changes to the project.  I think the stuff you (Patrick=
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have done so far would fall under the category of "minor" changes, which=20
would mean I still hold copyright on all the code on sourceforge.  Please=
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me know if you feel this is wrong!

  By the way, I am working on the documentation, and will update CVS and =
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you a message here when I have a reasonable amount done.  I went through =
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of the code this week, and have a very good feel for how the system works=
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It is fairly close to being finished code-wise, but will need a lot of=20
testing and documentation after the last bit is finished.