Re: open source copyright

Serge wrote:

I wrote some software (derived from a GNU GPL covered codebase)
and I am going to put in a public domain. I will put my name as
an author in the source code, but what about the copyright?
I developed it during my normal working hours, should I have my
employer's name as a copyright owner there? My name? Or it
doesn't matter at all?

You can't do that, and neither can your employer. The original
copyright holder still holds copyright. You have been licensed
under GPL, and one of the conditions is that if you release any
binaries of modified code you have to make the source freely
available, again under GPL.

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Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net)
Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems.
<http://cbfalconer.home.att.net>


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