Re: [Jsynthlib-devel] Re: GPL copyright notice

[Brian <br...@ov...>]

Generally its not cool to remove someone elses name from the copyright 
line of a file, but If you've made substantial changes there's no problem
with adding your name to it. Having a name at the top of each file is 
just a formality for the GPL anyway. Realistically most files in JSynthLib
could be considered derrivative works of other files, so no one really 
owns a clean copyright to enough of JSynthLib to do anything with it
outside of the rights granted by the GPL.

Independant of the copyright is the authorsName field of drivers which 
is shown to users of the software if they look at the driver info.
Here anyone who has done substantial work on the driver can add their 
name after existing names. This isn't used for anything except bragging 
rights :)



Brian

Bill Zwicky wrote:

> Who should get the copyright for the files I've modified?  The editor 
> is safely mine, but the device and driver had other names before I 
> started.
>
> -Bill
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