Re: copyright questions

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:20:42 +0200, Vasiliy Molostov <molostoff@gmail.com>  
a écrit:

> 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.

Is this a personal assumption or an assertion you know some references  
about?


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