Re: [Hamlib-developer] Who's copyright on new files?

[Nate B. <n0...@n0...>]

* On 2025 07 Jul 12:50 -0500, George Baltz wrote:
> I'm in the process of moving some data structures out of rig.h into separate
> include files, mostly with cut&paste.  While setting up the headers and
> looking at other files, I wondered if there is an *official* name for
> generic Hamlib development for the copyright declaration.  Not to get into
> general license questions, but I'd at least like to get this in the right
> form.

I'd say that if it is a significant amount of your original work then
you should note yourself as the copyright holder and licensed under the
LGPL 2.1 as the rest of the library.

In some cases I've used the name of "The Hamlib Group" which is not a
formal entity and so probably really can't claim copyright but I mainly
limited that to things like README files and the like where a long list
of copyright holders isn't readable.

As Hamlib is not a formal entity, each contributor should assign
themselves as the copyright holder or add oneself to the list in the
cases of a significant amount of contribution to existing files.  As I
see it, we're a collection of hobbyists contributing source code for the
use of the greater radio hobby.

73, Nate

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