From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c414b671e6762ef X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.83.74 with SMTP id o10mr875131pay.33.1344787482536; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:04:42 -0700 (PDT) Path: c10ni108322pbw.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: sbelmont700@gmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: copyright questions Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 09:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <9aa82823-3b7b-4212-949a-780efa7d7cc1@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.53.78.59 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1344787482 20728 127.0.0.1 (12 Aug 2012 16:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 16:04:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <9aa82823-3b7b-4212-949a-780efa7d7cc1@googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.53.78.59; posting-account=ShYTIAoAAABytvcS76ZrG9GdaV-nXYKy User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-12T09:03:03-07:00 List-Id: On Sunday, August 12, 2012 8:46:29 AM UTC-4, Leo Brewin wrote: > Greetings, >=20 >=20 >=20 > I have ported some parts of Lapack & Blas to Ada2012 and I'd like to make= the code available for public use. But before I release the code I'd like = to canvas your opinions on how I should assign the copyright. The original = copyright licence (from the Fortran sources) must be included, that much is= clear. But I have made some small changes forced upon me by the transition= from Fortran to Ada. Do I need to add a separate copyright notice to this = Ada version?=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > I don't want to get into the debate about the right and wrongs of the var= ious copyright licences (GPL vs. BSD) or the politics of copyright law. I j= ust want to ensure that no third parties can later claim copyright of my wo= rk (as limited as it is, it's just a port of the hard work of the original = Lapack & Blas team, so there is little intellectual content in my contribut= ion). If someone could point me to an example (of a copyright license for a= ported code) that would be a start. >=20 A translation of a copyrighted work is a derivative work, so (assuming you = live in the US) anything new your contribute is automatically copyrighted a= s well (*just* what you contribute). Essentially, someone would need your = permission to distribute copies of your code, and you would need permission= from the authors of LAPACK (which you already have, conditionally, via the= license).