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Re: RFS: xlife



Bas Wijnen wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 10:07:45PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote:
Bas Wijnen wrote:
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:53:48PM -0500, Barry deFreese wrote:
- Only one copyright claim, for "XLife".  It seems to be about the
  entire program.  However, there is also a list of other authors
  without a copyright claim.
I don't see any other claims of copyright.  How do I verify that?

Well, normally with only one copyright claim, you can assume that this
person (or entity) owns the copyright on the entire program.  In this
case, this is unlikely because:
- Some parts of the code have been written by others.
- The license which is chosen seems to be a "I don't care about
  copyright" type, which is mostly intended to keep the lawyers away.
  (This is my interpretation, not necessarily theirs.)
- For one person to hold the entire copyright when multiple people have
  written code, a copyright transfer must have taken place.  I find it
  unlikely that these people took the trouble to do that.

For the parts you own the copyright on, you can even be sure that you
didn't transfer copyright. :-)

- A license for the only copyright claim.  This seems to be about the
  entire program.  If this is correct, that is good. :-)  However, all
  copyright holders need to agree.  It's probably a good idea to send
  them (and Jon Bennett, too) a mail asking them who they think holds
  copyrights on (parts of) the code, so this can be properly noted.

Oh, and of course if they hold copyright, they should confirm that they
released the code under the same license.

<snip>
Thanks,
Bas

OK, I'm trying to contact the other authors. Of course 3 of the 4 e-mails addresses (including the original maintainer) failed immediately. :-( I'll do some googling.

Thanks!

Barry deFreese


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