Re: copyright questions

["Vasiliy Molostov" <molostoff@gmail.com>]

Leo Brewin <leo.brewin@internode.on.net> писал(а) в своём письме Sun, 12  
Aug 2012 16:46:29 +0400:

> Greetings,
>
> 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?
>
> I don't want to get into the debate about the right and wrongs of the  
> various copyright licences (GPL vs. BSD) or the politics of copyright  
> law. I just want to ensure that no third parties can later claim  
> copyright of my work (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 contribution). If someone could point me to an example (of  
> a copyright license for a ported code) that would be a start.
>
> Just to be clear, this is a port to Ada, not a set of bindings to the  
> Fortran code.

Since copyright covers fixed form writings and your version is a new
writing you might want to supply your own licence.

How fortran version relates to Ada you might want to ask fortran version  
author, since some code fragments probably stay unchanged.

Also, fortran licence covers fortran sources, so I dont think that  
inclusion of this one relates to Ada sources somehow.

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